Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis

CBT Radio

This episode is relevant to professionals and consumers.

In this episode, R. Trent Codd, III, Ed.S., LPC, LCAS interviews Neal Stolar, MD-PhD and Paul Grant, PhD about cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis. In this episode they discuss:

• The cognitive-behavioral therapy approach to treating psychosis
• How CBT may be used with persons at high risk for developing psychosis
• An overview of the research base pertaining to CBT and psychosis
• Current directions in this literature

DRS. NEAL STOLAR AND PAUL GRANT BIOGRAPHIES

Neal Stolar, MD-PhD, is a Medical Director and Director of the Cognitive Therapy for the Treatment of Psychosis Special Project at Project Transition in the Philadelphia area; a psychiatric consultant for Creative Health Services and Penn Behavioral Health; a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Psychopathology Research Unit and Schizophrenia Research Center; and is in private practice. Dr. Stolar is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He has lectured on cognitive therapy of schizophrenia in the United States, China, and Brazil.

Paul Grant, PhD, is Director of Schizophrenia Research and a Fellow in the Psychopathology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Grant’s research interests include cognitive psychopathological models of positive and negative symptoms as well as cognitive therapy of schizophrenia. He is the author of several journal articles and book chapters.