Observational studyPsychology and psychotherapy2022
Distress factors of voice-hearing in young people and social relating: Exploring a cognitive-interpersonal voice-hearing model.
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- Psychological and behavioral mechanisms linking childhood trauma profiles to voice-related distress in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: latent class, mediation, and conditional process analyses.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- "We Are Humans, and We Are People" - A Thematic Analysis Exploring the Disclosure and Help-Seeking Experiences of Young People Who Experience Voice-Hearing Within Mental Health Services in the UK.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2026Article
- The ECHO study: compassion-focused therapy for young voice hearers and their caregivers. A pilot study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- "Attitudes to voices": a survey exploring the factors influencing clinicians' intention to assess distressing voices and attitudes towards working with young people who hear voices.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Distress factors of voice-hearing in young people and social relating: Exploring a cognitive-interpersonal voice-hearing model.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2022Observational
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Abstract
objectivesLittle is known about the factors that can maintain the distress related to voice-hearing experiences in youth. Building upon understandings developed with adults, this study aimed to explore the associations between negative relating between hearer and voices, persecutory beliefs about voices and voice-related distress in a clinical sample of adolescents. The study also aimed to investigate associations between relating to voices and wider patterns of social relating.
designThis was an observational, cross-sectional, survey study.
methodsThirty-four young people (age 14-18 years) who were hearing voices completed measures about voices (characteristics, relating and beliefs) and relating to social others (negative relating styles, social connectedness and belongingness). Participants were patients of NHS mental health services. Bivariate correlations explored associations between relating to voices and distress, beliefs about voices and distress, and between relating to voices and social relating variables.
resultsPerceiving the voices as dominant, intrusive, and persecutory and resisting them was significantly associated with distress. Adjusting for loudness and negative content rendered the association between persecutory beliefs and distress non-significant. Fear of separation and of being alone in relation to social others was associated with distancing from voices. Being suspicious, uncommunicative and self-reliant and/or being sadistic and intimidating towards social others was significantly associated with dependence towards the voices. Greater hearer-to-voice dependence was associated with lower perceived social belongingness and connectedness.
conclusionsBeliefs about voices being persecutory, dominant, intrusive and resisting voices seem to be significant contributors of distress in young people. In terms of proximity and power, relating to voices and social others appears to be contrasting.
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