Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Due to a clinical need for improved treatments for psychosis including delusions and paranoia, The Feeling Safe Programme was recently developed by a team at University of Oxford. The aim was to develop a CBT treatment for people with schizophrenia that had a success rate that was more similar to CBT treatments for anxiety disorders. Developed with over a decade's research, The Feeling Safe Programme has proved to be an effective psychological treatment for outpatients with paranoia and delusions. 50% of people receive large benefits from Feeling Safe, with 25% making moderate gains. Currently, there are no published findings on the effectiveness of the Feeling Safe Programme within an inpatient environment. The proposed planning activities will explore this knowledge gap and lead to collaborative development of priority research questions and plans for a grant application. We will incorporate input from clinicians, researchers, knowledge users, and stakeholders including clients with schizophrenia and family/caregivers.