Auditory Hallucinations Roadmap
The outline below provides a roadmap for treatment of auditory hallucination within a CBTp framework. The roadmap provides direction in the following areas: Assessment, Psychoeducation, and Coping Strategies. Clinicians are encouraged to supplement these recommendations with other domains not specific to voice hearing from the CBT Roadmap – Early in Treatment guide; for example, materials relevant to goal setting could be tailored to voice-hearing. Resources are drawn primarily from the IRT Training Manual.
Additional recourses are drawn from other publicly available guides for treating auditory hallucinations:
- CBT for Voices and Worries: Therapists Manual (From Dimitri Perivoliotis and Yulia Landa)
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Psychosis Handouts (From Valeri Kreider and Harry Sivec). Handouts:
Assessments
Assessment can be helpful for establishing clients’ beliefs or dimensions of voice-hearing. Several options exist for clinicians to use during an assessment phase and across therapy to monitor treatment progress. We are agnostic about which are “best” measures but provide several options within each domain. Please note that you do not have to use all these measures.
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Psychoeducation
Psychoeducation about voice-hearing can in and of itself be very therapeutic as it may help normalize and destigmatize the experience of hearing voices.
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Coping Strategies
The following list of coping strategies is not exhaustive and consists of selected coping strategies from the material referenced in this guide.
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