Compensatory Cognitive Training for Psychosis

Compensatory and Rehabilitative Cognitive Training Improves Executive Functions and Metacognition

Purpose: Executive Functions (EF) improvement is considered as a pivotal axis in cognitive rehabilitation and enhancement according to the studies. Scholars believe that EF can be practiced and improved as a way to ameliorate cognitive ability. The main objective of the present paper is to boost executive functions and meta-cognition via compensatory and rehabilitative cognitive training. Metho...

Cognitive Biases Questionnaire for psychosis.

OBJECTIVE The Cognitive Biases Questionnaire for psychosis (CBQp) was developed to capture 5 cognitive distortions (jumping to conclusions, intentionalising, catastrophising, emotional reasoning, and dichotomous thinking), which are considered important for the pathogenesis of psychosis. Vignettes were adapted from the Cognitive Style Test (CST),(1) relating to "Anomalous Perceptions" and "Thre...

Cognitive^behavioural therapy for psychosis

I am writing to comment on this debate (Turkington & McKenna, 2003) from the point of view of a practising clinician who regularly works with people who are experiencing or recovering from psychotic symptoms. I find both cognitive–behavioural and psychodynamic models useful in my work. Many research practitioners have reservations about using randomised controlled trials as the main test of the...

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for psychosis.

I am writing to comment on this debate (Turkington & McKenna, 2003) from the point of view of a practising clinician who regularly works with people who are experiencing or recovering from psychotic symptoms. I find both cognitive–behavioural and psychodynamic models useful in my work. Many research practitioners have reservations about using randomised controlled trials as the main test of the...

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBTp) for psychosis: the impact of therapist training and supervision