Objective: To review the research addressing the relationship of childhood trauma to
psychosis and schizophrenia, and to discuss the theoretical and clinical implications. Method: …

The current diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia proposes that a genetic deficit creates
a predisposing vulnerability in the form of oversenstivity to stress. This model positions all …

Evidence suggests that adverse experiences in childhood are associated with psychosis. To
examine the association between childhood adversity and trauma (sexual abuse, physical …

… John Read is at the forefront of recent work in the area, and … This reects the fact that Read
is not only a researcher on … how this might be measured, Read then deals at length with the …

Objective: Many anti‐stigma programmes use the ‘mental illness is an illness like any other’
approach. This review evaluates the effectiveness of this approach in relation to …

This study is a contribution to the ongoing validation of the word associates format, a
selected-response type of test item devised by the author to measure depth of vocabulary …

Models of Madnessshows that hallucinations and delusions are understandable reactions
to life events and circumstances rather than symptoms of a supposed genetic predisposition …

Mental health services and research have been dominated for several decades by a rather
simplistic, reductionistic focus on biological phenomena, with minimal consideration of the …

With the increasing interest on the part of both researchers and language teaching specialists
in the study of vocabulary acquisition by L2 learners, there is a need to have suitable …

In light of recent studies indicating a relationship between child abuse and the positive
symptoms of schizophrenia, this study investigated the hypotheses that childhood sexual and …