Trauma-focused therapy for psychosis: helpful for delusions, less so for hallucinations

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A new meta-analysis from Toutountzidis and colleagues finds trauma-focused therapies meaningfully reduce delusions in psychosis, but offer limited benefit for hallucinations. Younger people gain most.

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Healing takes time: Can cognitive therapy for PTSD help young people in CAMHS? Insights from DECRYPT

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PTSD in young people is common, complex, and often entangled with depression, anxiety, and multiple traumatic experiences. A major new UK trial (DECRYPT) tested whether a structured form of trauma-focused cognitive therapy (CT-PTSD) can work in real CAMHS settings for those with the most severe difficulties.

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