Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychotic Symptoms: A Therapist's Manual
Centre for Clinical Interventions, WA Dept of Health (Australia) · 2003 · 149 pages · For clinicians treating delusions, voices, and related distress
Read it at the official source
CCI distributes this free for download; site terms permit personal use and prohibit republication, so the link goes to the official file. CCI notes it no longer uses this manual in its own clinic and asks clinicians to review its suitability. We pass that along because honesty about provenance matters.
If the publisher link moves: archived copy
A ten-module therapist manual for working with residual psychotic symptoms: engagement and assessment, psychoeducation, cognitive therapy for delusional beliefs, cognitive and coping approaches to voices, behavioural skills, and managing the anxiety and depression that ride along with psychosis. Client handouts are included in the appendix.
Genuinely free CBT-for-psychosis manuals are rare, which keeps this 2003 manual in demand; CCI's own caution that it reflects its era is part of the listing above.
Run it with these materials
The evidence-examining and fact-vs-opinion worksheets carry the manual's cognitive work with beliefs, and the intrusive thoughts sheet frames its normalizing psychoeducation.
This manual is a publication of Centre for Clinical Interventions, WA Dept of Health (Australia). Therapy Resource is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, its publisher. The summary above is our own; always follow the manual itself and your clinical judgment. If you are in crisis, contact 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or call 911.