Genetic factors are clearly important in the etiology of schizophrenia, but the environment in
which an individual's genes find expression is also crucial to the development of the illness …

Objective: To present a systematic review of the literature on the associations between early
social environment, early life adversity, and social cognition in major psychiatric disorders …

Contemporary researchers have tended to examine dysfunction among the lives of persons
with schizophrenia as a matter of the impact of biological and social forces. While this has …

Hearing voices when nobody speaks or seeing objects no one else sees--hallucinations are
intriguing phenomena that have puzzled clinicians, researchers, and lay people alike for …

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) evolved from behavioral theory and developed to focus
more on cognitive models that incorporated reappraisal of thinking errors and schema …

A number of studies have demonstrated an increased rate of histories of childhood
maltreatment among adults with serious mental illness. The present investigation …

This book offers reflections on how liberation might be experienced by clients as a result of
the therapeutic relationship. It explores how power and resistance might be most effectively …

Objective: The authors hypothesized that the likelihood of psychosis classification would
increase with traumatic experiences. Method: Data from the National Comorbidity Survey …

Objectives: Adverse childhood experiences have been found to be asso-ciated with poor
physical and poor mental health, impaired functioning, and increased substance abuse in …

Given the apparent failure of the “mental illness is an illness like any other” approach to
reducing negative stereotypes of people with mental health problems, the differential effects …