Children Hearing Voices

Marius Romme, MD, PhD, was Professor of Social Psychiatry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Maastricht ( Netherlands) from 1974 to 1999, as well as Consultant Psychiatrist at the Community Mental Health Centre in Maastricht. He is now a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Community Mental Health, Birmingham City University. His research over the past twenty-five years has focused on the voice-hearing experience. Sandra Escher, MPhil, PhD, was a science journalist and worked as a senior researcher at the University of Maastricht, focusing on children hearing voices. She is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Community Mental Health, Birmingham City University.

The Children's section Part 1: what you can do if you hear voices Introduction: How this book works 1 Voice Collective: You are not alone - Rachel Waddingham 2 What Is Voice Hearing? 3 How Do You Deal with the Voices? 4 What Kind of Influence Do the Voices Have? 5 What Happened at the Start of the Voice Hearing? 6 What Triggers the Voices? 7 Voices and Emotions 8 What Explanations Are There for Voice Hearing? Part 2: The stories of eight children Introduction: Why did we choose these stories? Pete, Paula, John, David, Emily, Ben, Laura, Daisy The adult's section Introduction to the Adults' Section 1 The History of Hearing Voices 2 Current Theoretical Explanations Within Mental Healthcare 3 Non-medical Explanations of Voice Hearing 4 Children Who Hear Voices: The role of psychiatric treatment - Prof Sami Timimi 5 The Maastricht Interview for Children and Adolescents Hearing Voices: Research results 6 Exploring the Experience with the Maastricht Interview 7 Completing 'Voices' Jigsaw Puzzles - Jeanette Woolthuis 8 Children Hearing Voices and Trauma 9 Voice Collective: Learning from parents who've been there - Rachel Waddingham 10 'Resonance Association' Advice for Parents - Thea Boom-Legierse 11 Parents' Experiences - Anne, Marie Louise and Karin