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David L Penn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a randomized controlled trial of social cognition and interaction training scit for outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2014Co-Authors: David L. Roberts, Dennis R. Combs, Clare M Gibson, Betty Rupp, Michael T Willoughby, Jim Mintz, David L PennAbstract:Objectives In schizophrenia, the ability to adaptively infer the thoughts and feelings of others (i.e., social cognition) is strongly associated with community functioning. Researchers have designed psychosocial Interventions to improve social cognition with the aim of improving downstream social functioning. Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) is one such intervention. Previous research on SCIT has been promising, but has consisted largely of smaller trials with insufficient experimental control. Design Randomized, controlled trial. Methods The current article reports on a controlled trial of 66 adults with schizophrenia randomized to receive either SCIT (n = 33), delivered in weekly group sessions, or treatment as usual (n = 33) for 6 months. Participants completed assessments of social cognition, social functioning, neurocognition and symptoms at baseline, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up. Results Primary analyses suggest that SCIT may improve social functioning, negative symptoms, and possibly hostile attributional bias. Post-hoc analyses suggest a dose–response effect. Conclusions Findings are discussed in the context of continuing to refine and improve social Cognitive Interventions for schizophrenia. Practitioner points Social Cognitive intervention is a feasible and promising approach to improving social functioning among individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Dose–response findings suggest that delivering social Cognitive Interventions with greater frequency may maximize their benefit to patients. Research on social Cognitive Interventions is still young and effects from well-controlled trials have been inconsistent. It is not yet clear which components of social Cognitive training may be the key active ingredients.
Jimmy Lee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Cognitive Interventions for people with schizophrenia: A systematic review
Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2016Co-Authors: Bhing-leet Tan, Sara-ann Lee, Jimmy LeeAbstract:Social cognition is the mental process which underpins social interactions. Increasingly, it has been recognized to be impaired in people with schizophrenia, resulting in functional problems. Correspondingly, the past ten years have seen huge developments in the study of Interventions to ameliorate social Cognitive deficits among people with schizophrenia. In the present review, we systematically reviewed published studies on social Cognitive Interventions from 2005 to 2015. Of the 61 studies included in this review, 20 were on broad-based social Cognitive Interventions, which incorporated neuroCognitive training, specialized learning technique or virtual reality social skills training. On the other hand, 31 studies on targeted Interventions either focused on specific social Cognitive domains, or a range of domains. Improvements in emotion processing and theory of mind were often reported, while social perception and attributional style were less frequently measured. Both broad-based and targeted Interventions achieved gains in social functioning, albeit inconsistently. Lastly, nine studies on the use of oxytocin and one study on transcranial direct current stimulation reported positive preliminary results in higher-order cognition and facial affect recognition respectively. This review revealed that a wide range of social Cognitive Interventions is currently available and most have shown some promise in improving social cognition outcomes. However, there is a need to use a common battery of measurements for better comparisons across Interventions. Future research should examine combination therapies and the sustainability of gains beyond the intervention period.
Matthew M. Kurtz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cognitive and Social Cognitive Interventions for Schizophrenia
Oxford Clinical Psychology, 2015Co-Authors: Matthew M. KurtzAbstract:Cognitive and social Cognitive Interventions for people with schizophrenia are novel, emerging in a systematic manner only over the past 10 to 15 years. They are largely understudied to date. Results of controlled and frequently randomized and blinded trials of Cognitive remediation have been both impressive in individual studies and remarkably robust in their effects across studies, despite widely varying strategic treatment approaches, control conditions, duration of Interventions, selection of outcome measures, sample characteristics, and adjunctive treatments. Controlled trials of social Cognitive therapies, while smaller in number, have shown considerable promise as well. Cognitive and social Cognitive therapies thus represent an exciting new frontier in the study of psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia.
David L. Roberts - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a randomized controlled trial of social cognition and interaction training scit for outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2014Co-Authors: David L. Roberts, Dennis R. Combs, Clare M Gibson, Betty Rupp, Michael T Willoughby, Jim Mintz, David L PennAbstract:Objectives In schizophrenia, the ability to adaptively infer the thoughts and feelings of others (i.e., social cognition) is strongly associated with community functioning. Researchers have designed psychosocial Interventions to improve social cognition with the aim of improving downstream social functioning. Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) is one such intervention. Previous research on SCIT has been promising, but has consisted largely of smaller trials with insufficient experimental control. Design Randomized, controlled trial. Methods The current article reports on a controlled trial of 66 adults with schizophrenia randomized to receive either SCIT (n = 33), delivered in weekly group sessions, or treatment as usual (n = 33) for 6 months. Participants completed assessments of social cognition, social functioning, neurocognition and symptoms at baseline, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up. Results Primary analyses suggest that SCIT may improve social functioning, negative symptoms, and possibly hostile attributional bias. Post-hoc analyses suggest a dose–response effect. Conclusions Findings are discussed in the context of continuing to refine and improve social Cognitive Interventions for schizophrenia. Practitioner points Social Cognitive intervention is a feasible and promising approach to improving social functioning among individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Dose–response findings suggest that delivering social Cognitive Interventions with greater frequency may maximize their benefit to patients. Research on social Cognitive Interventions is still young and effects from well-controlled trials have been inconsistent. It is not yet clear which components of social Cognitive training may be the key active ingredients.
Bhing-leet Tan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Cognitive Interventions for people with schizophrenia: A systematic review
Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2016Co-Authors: Bhing-leet Tan, Sara-ann Lee, Jimmy LeeAbstract:Social cognition is the mental process which underpins social interactions. Increasingly, it has been recognized to be impaired in people with schizophrenia, resulting in functional problems. Correspondingly, the past ten years have seen huge developments in the study of Interventions to ameliorate social Cognitive deficits among people with schizophrenia. In the present review, we systematically reviewed published studies on social Cognitive Interventions from 2005 to 2015. Of the 61 studies included in this review, 20 were on broad-based social Cognitive Interventions, which incorporated neuroCognitive training, specialized learning technique or virtual reality social skills training. On the other hand, 31 studies on targeted Interventions either focused on specific social Cognitive domains, or a range of domains. Improvements in emotion processing and theory of mind were often reported, while social perception and attributional style were less frequently measured. Both broad-based and targeted Interventions achieved gains in social functioning, albeit inconsistently. Lastly, nine studies on the use of oxytocin and one study on transcranial direct current stimulation reported positive preliminary results in higher-order cognition and facial affect recognition respectively. This review revealed that a wide range of social Cognitive Interventions is currently available and most have shown some promise in improving social cognition outcomes. However, there is a need to use a common battery of measurements for better comparisons across Interventions. Future research should examine combination therapies and the sustainability of gains beyond the intervention period.