Contextualizing 'psychosis' behaviors and what to do about them
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2023
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Guerin, B.
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Diaz-Garrido, J.A.
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Source details - Title: Psychological interventions for psychosis : towards a paradigm shift, 2023 / Diaz-Garrido, J.A. (ed./s), Ch.6, pp.105-123
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This chapter presents a social contextual analysis of the ways in which bad life environments can shape the range of ‘psychosis’ behaviors and then what we might do about helping people who have had these behaviors shaped (Boyle and Johnstone, A straight talking introduction to the power threat meaning framework: an alternative to psychiatric diagnosis. PCCS Books, London, 2020; Guerin, Turning psychology into a social science. Routledge, London, 2020c; Johnstone et al., The power threat meaning framework: towards the identification of patterns in emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled or troubling behaviour, as an alternative to functional psychiatric diagnosis.
British Psychological Society, Leicester, 2018). This will follow a traditional behavior/contextual analysis of searching out (1) the behaviors of interest and then (2) the environments/contexts which shape and maintain these behaviors by (3) analysis of their consequences, outcomes, or functioning. However, this cannot be done in terms of simple or three-term contingencies since the adult human behaviors, environments, and functioning are extremely complex with complex histories. The details will only come from intensive work with individuals and exploring their idiosyncratic functional life contexts, through case study research or therapy, but using the full range of life contexts.
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