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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Psychotic experiences"”.
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Cultural Identity and Attenuated Psychotic Experiences
… and national identity on attenuated positive psychotic symptoms (APPS) in conjunction with BII. A sample of 123 immigrant emerging adults completed self-report inventories of psychosis risk, ethnic and national identity, and BII. Linear regression analyses were conducted to assess the direct …
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Psychotic experiences beyond psychotic disorders: from measurement to computational mechanisms
Psychotic experiences (PEs) occur in the general population, beyond psychotic disorders. PEs are a risk factor for mental ill health in young people but can occur benignly in selected samples of adults. Environmental factors predispose to PEs but their underlying mechanisms are not well-understood. …
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The Nature and Mechanisms of Psychotic Experiences in Borderline Personality Disorder
… While often regarded as an affective disorder, psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusional convictions are also frequently experienced by people with BPD but are habitually dismissed in both research and clinical practice. Their aetiology and the mechanisms underlying them remain …
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Self-concept clarity, trauma and psychopathology
… the relationship between adverse childhood experiences, SCC and psychopathology. Participants were allocated to one of three groups: psychosis (presence of psychotic experiences), anxiety/depression (moderate-severe levels of anxiety and/or depression) or control (no psychotic experiences …
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Reactive psychosis in a first-episode psychosis population
… that severe mental disorder characterised by psychotic experiences such as hallucinations and delusions can be a primary reaction to overwhelming stress or distress (Ungvari & Mullen, 2000). Reactive psychosis, a term coined over a century ago to differentiate these disorders from other …
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Therapeutic relationships with people experiencing psychosis within an acute mental health care setting: a critical discursive evaluation
… nurses and counselling psychologists, who had experiences of working in AMHS and with people experiencing psychosis. These were transcribed and analysed using Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP; Potter and Wetherell, 1986). Findings: Four interpretive repertoires were identified within the …
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Risk of depression and cardiovascular disease across the lifespan: the role of systemic inflammation.
… IL-6, and CRP with depressive symptoms and psychotic experiences. I showed that a higher burden of common childhood infections is associated with depressive symptoms and psychotic experiences in early and mid-adolescence. In contrast, I discovered that childhood IL-6 and CRP were more …
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Recovery after psychosis: a compassion focused recovery approach to psychosis in a forensic mental health setting
… aim of this thesis was therefore to explore the experiences of individuals with psychosis in a forensic mental health setting. The objective was to develop recovery focused psychological interventions based on patients’ experiences of what helped them to cope in hospital, and in essence, what …