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Title: Social Problem Solving Therapy


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Social Problem Solving Therapy
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Aim of the day
  • To produce an action plan aimed at consolidating
    social problem solving therapy as one of the
    Trusts core therapies, with the view to
    achieving a sound base of practical skills that
    will permit research into the effectiveness of
    social problem solving therapy
  • Principles relate to other therapies, not only
    social problem solving therapy

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Programme
  • Social problem solving Past, present and future
  • Professor Mary McMurran
  • Division of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham
  • New roles and new ways of working in mental
    health The challenge for education
  • Professor Ian Baguley
  • Director, Centre for Clinical and Academic
    Workforce Innovation, University of Lincoln
  • To accredit or not to accredit?  That is the
    question
  • Mr Lawrence Whyte
  • Workforce Development Dept, Nottinghamshire
    Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Supporting applied clinical research in NHS
    therapies Towards practice based evidence
  • Professor Chris Evans
  • Research Programmes Director, Nottinghamshire
    Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Looking backwards in order to move forwards
  • Professor Conor Duggan
  • Chair of the Personality Disorder Institute,
    Division of Psychiatry Nottinghamshire
    Healthcare NHS Trust

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Social problem solvingPast, present and future
  • Mary McMurran
  • University of Nottingham

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Plan
  • Developments of social problem solving theory and
    therapy in East Midlands since mid 1990s
  • A collaboration between Nottinghamshire
    Healthcare NHS Trust and University of Nottingham
  • How research and practice need to develop in
    partnership

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ESRC Research Seminar Group
  • Seminar Groups
  • multi-institutional
  • academic researchers
  • postgraduate students
  • non-academic users
  • Meet regularly to exchange information and ideas
    with the aim of advancing research within their
    fields

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Social problem solving and personality disorder
  • 2004 -2006
  • Award 11,974
  • Meeting costs
  • Speakers costs
  • Organisers costs
  • Events
  • Research meetings
  • Conference
  • Training event
  • Todays event

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Seminar Groups
  • Academics
  • Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology
  • Cardiff University, University of Nottingham,
    University of Wales Institute Cardiff, University
    of Sheffield, University of Liverpool, Drexel
    University Philadelphia
  • Practitioners
  • Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Nurses, OTs, Social
    Workers, Probation Officers
  • Public and Private Sectors
  • Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire
  • Qualified, trainees, post-graduates
  • Service User

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Past to Present
  • Seminars built on a body of local knowledge and
    experience
  • Maintained and developed an interest in the area
  • What was that body of local knowledge?
  • What is social problem solving therapy?

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Social problem solving
  • The self-directed cognitive-behavioural process
    by which a person attempts to identify or
    discover effective or adaptive solutions for
    specific problems encountered in everyday living
  • DZurilla Nezu

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Social problem solving
  • The self-directed cognitive-behavioural-affective
    processes by which a person attempts to identify
    or discover effective or adaptive solutions for
    specific problems encountered in everyday living
  • DZurilla Nezu McMurran

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Social problem solving skills
  • Ability to recognise emotional cues
  • Identify and define a problem
  • Specify goal for change
  • Generate options to attain goal
  • Consequential thinking
  • Selection of effective strategies
  • Means-end action planning

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Social problem solving and social adjustment
  • Social problem solving deficits evident in
  • Aggressive children
  • Suicidal prisoners
  • Depressed people
  • Personality disordered offenders
  • Child sex offenders
  • Social problem solving therapy reduces problems
    in these groups

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Social problem solving therapy
  • Teach skills of social problem solving
  • Problem recognition
  • Problem definition
  • Goal setting
  • Option generation
  • Consequential thinking
  • Means-end action planning
  • Solution implementation
  • Outcome evaluation

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Arnold Lodge, 1995 - 1999
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Pilot study
  • Trainee psychologist looking for experience in
    delivering therapies
  • Small scale social problem solving intervention
  • Detained mentally disordered offenders
  • 6 mentally ill 3 personality disordered
  • Showed pre- to post-intervention improvements on
    the Social Problem Solving Inventory Revised
    (SPSI-R)

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Pilot study
  • SPSI-R
  • Positive Problem Orientation (PPO)
  • Negative Problem Orientation (NPO)
  • Rational Problem Solving (RPO)
  • Impulsive/careless style (ICS)
  • Avoidant style (AS)
  • Social problem solving index (SPS)

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Developments
  • Began to use SPSI-R as part of general assessment
    of Arnold Lodge patients database on MDOs
  • Personality Disorder Unit (PDU) opened and
    adopted Social Problem Solving Therapy, Stop
    Think!, as a core part of treatment

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Arnold Lodge Cardiff University, 2000-2005
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Finding 1
  • Personality disordered offenders are poorer at
    social problem solving, as measured by the
    SPSI-R, than prisoners and mature students.

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Population comparisons
PD (N42) Prisoners (N39) Mature students
(N70)
PPO NPO RPS ICS AS SPS
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Finding 2
  • Personality traits are associated with social
    problem solving skills

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Traits
  • Mentally disordered offenders
  • N52 38 MI and 14 PD
  • Big Five
  • Neuroticism
  • Extraversion
  • Openness
  • Agreeableness
  • Conscientiousness

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Traits
  • High N associated with poor social problem
    solving in MDOs
  • Less positive
  • More negative
  • Less rational
  • More impulsive/careless
  • More avoidant

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Impulsivity
  • Studies with students
  • Impulsiveness (BIS)
  • Social Problem Solving (SPSI-R)
  • Aggression (AQ)

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Impulsivity
Impulsivity
Aggression
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Impulsivity
Social problem- solving
Impulsivity
Aggression
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Finding 3
  • Social problem solving therapy improves social
    problem solving, as measured by SPSI-R scores

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Social Problem Solving Therapy
  • PD Offenders
  • SPS
  • score
  • Baseline 9m 15m
    21m
  • (N42) (N26) (N15)
    (N11)

15 14 13 12 11 10
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SPS Conference, Nottingham 2001
  • James McGuire, University of Liverpool
  • Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen, University of
    Helsinki
  • Steve Fyffe, Arnold Lodge PDU
  • Linda Blud Rosie Travers, HM Prison Service
  • Debbie Fleck, Hutton Centre RSU
  • Fiona Biggam, Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Special issue of Criminal Behaviour Mental
    Health, 2001, Vol. 11, No. 4 .

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Book
  • McMurran, M. McGuire, J. (Eds) (2005). Social
    problem solving and offending Evidence,
    evaluation and evolution. Chichester Wiley.

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Contributors
Fiona Biggam Conor Duggan Vince Egan Theresa
Gannon James McGuire Kevin Power
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Contributors
Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen
Walter Matthys
Friedrich Lösel Andreas Beelmann
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Contributors
Robin Harvey Tony Ward Devon Polaschek
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Contributors
Dan Antonowicz Shelley Brown Robert Ross Ralph
Serin Laura Dreer Tom DZurilla Tim
Elliott Warren Jackson John Lochman Christine
Maguth Nezu Arthur M Nezu
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Nottingham, 2006
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Landscaped project
  • Nick Huband et al. (2006) B J Psychiatry
  • Randomised controlled treatment trial
  • Stop Think! psychoeducation
  • Community adults with PD
  • Improved social problem solving (SPSI-R)
  • Improved social functioning (SFQ)

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Personality disorders SPSI-R
SPSI-R predictors Cluster A Paranoid
None Schizoid None Schizotypal
None Cluster B Antisocial None Borderline
? Impulsive ? Avoidant Histrionic ?
Impulsive Narcissistic ? Impulsive ? Positive
Cluster C Avoidant ? Impulsive ? Negative
Dependent ? Negative Obsess/Comp None
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Problem solving model of personality disorder
Traits e.g., High N impulsivity
Dysfunction, e.g., Poor interpersonal skills
poor coping
Poor social problem solving
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Problem solving model of personality disorder
Traits e.g., High N impulsivity
Information processing biases
Dysfunction, e.g., Poor interpersonal skills
poor coping
Poor social problem solving
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Problem solving model of personality disorder
Maladaptive schemas
Traits e.g., High N impulsivity
Information processing biases
Dysfunction, e.g., Poor interpersonal skills
poor coping
Poor social problem solving
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Problem solving model of personality disorder
Maladaptive schemas
Substance use
Traits e.g., High N impulsivity
Information processing biases
Distress
Dysfunction, e.g., Poor interpersonal skills
poor coping
Poor social problem solving
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A testable model
  • Testable by whom?
  • A glimpse of the future

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SPS Conference, Nottingham 2006
Art Nezu, USA
James McGuire, UK
Chris Nezu, USA
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Future
University of Liverpool
Drexel University, USA
University of Nottingham
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Future
University of Liverpool
Drexel University, USA
University of Nottingham
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
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Future
University of Liverpool
Drexel University, USA
University of Nottingham
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Personality Disorder Institute
Nottingham Institute of Mental Health
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Acknowledgements
  • Research colleagues
  • Professor Conor Duggan
  • Dr Nick Huband
  • Professor Vince Egan
  • Dr Jo Sellen
  • Dr Lucy McCarthy
  • Dr Shahla Ahmadi
  • Dr Cathryn Richardson
  • Dr Marie Blair
  • Dr Gary Christopher
  • Practitioner colleagues
  • Cathy Wray
  • Steve Fyffe
  • Andy Latham
  • Claudia Gerald
  • Funders
  • NHS National Programme on Forensic Mental Health
    RD
  • Home Office
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