ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to offer an integrative framework for structuring interventions to address these needs, based on an understanding of the social and cognitive-developmental aspects of their difficulties. The aims are to increase social participation and achieve personally meaningful recovery goals. The Other models of therapy for psychosis, such as Person-Based Cognitive Therapy incorporate an understanding of self-processes in people with psychosis. From this perspective, self-construction is a key component of any therapeutic work, and is the rationale for the basis of the therapeutic framework discussed in this chapter. The chapter proposes that difficulties in some or all of the five domains such as self-construction, social skills, social beliefs, social cognition and social networks contribute to limited access to desired life-goals, such as work, romantic relationships or friendships. This returns us to the aim of the approach: to support people to access important social-developmental experiences so that they may experience a positive sense of self.
