Relational Therapies for People Who Hear Voices: Operationalisation and Current Status of an Emergent Group of Psychological Therapies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A recent theme in the development of psychological interventions for hearing voices (auditory verbal hallucinations) has been the emergence of a group of overlapping approaches increasingly referred to as relational therapies: Relating Therapy (RT), Talking with Voices (TwV), and AVATAR Therapy (AT).

Study design

Collaborative discussion among a group of researchers involved in developing these interventions combined with a systematic literature search were used to review this new genre, aiming to develop an agreed operationalisation; and identify common and distinctive aspects; potential mechanisms; and collective research directions.

Study results

Relational therapies for voices can be operationalised as those that "consider patterns of interaction, and/o

SUBMITTER: Thomas N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12809787 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature