Objectives: The study aimed to provide a mapping review of non-pharmacological
interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings; classify …

Objective This review explores the quantitative literature regarding recovery-oriented
training programmes for mental health professionals. The main objectives were to determine …

Objective The current study examined the efficacy of a virtual reality (VR) education system
that simulates the experience of the positive symptomology associated with schizophrenic …

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units presents innovative
ways of delivering CBT within the inpatient setting and applying CBT principles to inform and …

The current study explored, in a sample of 219 young Italian adults (105 M; 114 F; mean
age= 22.10 years; SD= 2.69; age range= 18–29), the contribution of the five psychosocial …

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how exercises associated with poetry and
bibliotherapy can be useful in assisting faculties of the helping professions teach empathy to …

While therapeutic alliance (TA) in schizophrenia has been linked with treatment adherence
and outcome, less is known about its relationship to rehabilitation outcome. To examine this …

We investigated the feasibility of implementing a recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R)
milieu training program in an urban acute psychiatric inpatient unit. Over a 1-month period …

Cognitive behavioral therapy for schizophrenia spectrum disorders is an evidence-based
treatment that is recommended by United States schizophrenia treatment guidelines. Based …

In this chapter, the authors explain why virtual reality (VR) is a particularly invigorating
technology in the realm of media effects and identify four affordances which are particularly …