Efficacy of Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Managing Delusion in Patients with Schizophrenia

Abstract

The cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) approach to psychosis is a relatively recent development and focuses directly on the core psychotic symptoms of hallucinations and delusions. Hallucination and delusion are common symptoms in most psychotic disorders especially, schizophrenia. The clinical features of schizophrenia hold a diverse range of disturbances of perception, thought, emotion, motivation, and motor activity. The principal aim of CBT in schizophrenia is to lessen the distress experienced due to delusions and hallucinations and to enable the patients to cope with these symptoms. Present study was conducted to see the efficacy of CBT in managing delusions with schizophrenia.