Mindfulness-Based Social Cognition Training (SocialMind) for People With Psychosis: A Feasibility Trial.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Difficulties in social functioning are common among people with psychosis. Negative symptoms such as blunted affect or social withdrawal are often linked to these difficulties and worsen real-life outcomes. One important dimension associated with social functioning is social cognition, which refers to the psychological processes that are necessary to perceive, encode, store, retrieve, and regulate social information. Mindfulness-based interventions for people with psychosis are safe and effective in improving anxiety and depressive symptoms; however, no mindfulness-based interventions addressing social cognition have yet been developed. Method: A pilot, single-arm, nonrandomized, noncontrolled feasibility trial is proposed. The main objectives are to assess the tolerability o

SUBMITTER: Mediavilla R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6506722 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature