Hearing voices and listening to what they say: The importance of voice content in understanding and working with distressing voices

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 201-205

  Beavan, Vanessa ^a,b   Read, John ^b  

^a First Episode Psychosis Team   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Auditory hallucinations; Psychosis; Voices

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE;

EID: 77949407778     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181d14612     Document Type: Article

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