Trial reportSchizophrenia bulletin2018
Social Cognitive Skills Training for Psychosis With Community-Based Training Exercises: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Social Cognition Among People Living with HIV: Implications for Non-Social Cognition and Social Everyday Functioning.Neuropsychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Acceptability of cognitive remediation for schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Psychological medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- A Patient-Tailored Evidence-Based Approach for Developing Early Neuropsychological Training Programs in Addiction Settings.Neuropsychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Different effects of social cognitive skills training in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder: A rater-blinded, multicenter, randomized controlled trial.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Trial
- Trajectories and predictors of response to social cognition training in people with schizophrenia: A proof-of-concept machine learning study.Schizophrenia research · 2024Trial
- Online Social Cognition Training in Schizophrenia: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Multi-Site Clinical Trial.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2021Trial
- Social cognition abilities in people with HIV: the role of stigma and other factors.AIDS (London, England) · 2025Review
- Psychosocial Management of First-Episode Psychosis and Schizophrenia: Synopsis of the US Department of Veterans Affairs and US Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guidelines.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- A Bayesian Network Approach to Social and Nonsocial Cognition in Schizophrenia: Are Some Domains More Fundamental than Others?Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Impact of Physical Exercise Alone or in Combination with Cognitive Remediation on Cognitive Functions in People with Schizophrenia: A Qualitative Critical Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Community-based social interventions for people with severe mental illness: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of recent evidence.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2022Article
- Flights and Perchings of the BrainMind: A Temporospatial Approach to Psychotherapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Efficacy of Integrated Social Cognitive Remediation vs. Neurocognitive Remediation in Improving Functional Outcome in Schizophrenia: Concept and Design of a Multicenter, Single-Blind RCT (The ISST Study).Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- We Should Improve Personalization of Management in Patients with a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Metacognition, social cognition, and mentalizing in psychosis: are these distinct constructs when it comes to subjective experience or are we just splitting hairs?BMC psychiatry · 2021Review
- The clinical characterization of the patient with primary psychosis aimed at personalization of management.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2021Article
- Social Dysfunction in Psychosis Is More Than a Matter of Misperception: Advances From the Study of Metacognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Social Cognition and Schizophrenia: Unresolved Issues and New Challenges in a Maturing Field of Research.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2020Article
- Theatre improvisation training to promote social cognition: A novel recovery-oriented intervention for youths at clinical risk for psychosis.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2020Article
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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 plus in vivo community-based training, (2) SCST plus clinic-based training, or (3) Illness management control condition. SCST targeted the domains of emotion processing, social perception, attributional bias, empathy, and mentalizing. Assessments of social cognition, nonsocial cognition, symptoms, and functioning were completed at baseline, mid-treatment, posttreatment, and 3-month follow-up. On the primary social cognitive outcome measures, there was significant, durable SCST-related improvement in facial emotion identification. There was also a significant SCST benefit for emotional intelligence and an in vivo training effect for empathy, though these improvements were not durable. Further, there were no overall or in vivo-related changes in functioning. This study bolsters and extends support for the efficacy of SCST in a relatively large and rigorously controlled trial, although our effort to enhance generalization to functional improvements through in vivo community-based training was not successful.
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