Cognitive Enhancement Therapy vs social skills training in schizophrenia: a cluster randomized comparative effectiveness evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Schizophrenia and related disorders are highly disabling and create substantial burdens for families, communities, and health care systems. Although pharmacological treatments can often lessen the psychotic symptoms that are a hallmark of schizophrenia, they do not lessen the social and cognitive deficits that create the greatest impediments to community engagement and functional recovery. This study builds on prior research on psychosocial rehabilitation by comparing the effectiveness of two treatments demonstrated as efficacious in improving social and community functioning, Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET) and a version of Social Skills Training (HOPES/SST).

Methods

The study uses a randomized cluster design in which a pair of clinicians at community- and ho

SUBMITTER: Schutt RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9434502 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature