Social Cognitive Skills Training for Psychosis With Community-Based Training Exercises: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: Impairments in social cognition are key determinants of poor functioning in psychosis and an important new target for treatment development. Initial studies support the feasibility and efficacy of training interventions for social cognition, but have been small and have had substantial methodological limitations. This report describes the largest rigorously controlled study of a social cognitive treatment to date. We evaluated the efficacy of a refined version of the 24-session Social Cognitive Skills Training (SCST) program, and whether adding in vivo training sessions in community settings would enhance generalization to functional improvements. One hundred thirty-nine outpatients with psychotic disorders were randomly assigned to one of 3 time- and format-matched conditions: (1) SCST pl

SUBMITTER: Horan WP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6192506 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature