Stakeholder Perspectives on Implementing Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training on Assertive Community Treatment Teams

Enhancing assertive community treatment with cognitive behavioral social skills training for schizophrenia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia leads to profound disability in everyday functioning (e.g., difficulty finding and maintaining employment, housing, and personal relationships). Medications can effectively reduce positive symptoms (e.g., hallucinations and delusions), but they do not meaningfully improve daily life functioning. Psychosocial evidence-based practices (EBPs) improve functioning, but these...

P91: Effect of Group Assertive Training on Social Anxiety, Social Skills and Academic Performance of High School Students

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of group assertive training on social anxiety, social skills and academic performance of high school adolescents in Isfahan city. The sample includes 60 students selected by random multistage sampling method. They were randomly divided into experiment and control groups. Participants in this study completed a battery of scales including Watso...

Nurses and assertive community treatment teams: a critical combination.

comparison between efficacy of assertive training and assertive training with cognitive restructuring approaches on adolescents with social anxiety

this study investigates the efficacy of assertive training, that is a kind of multi component behavioral procedures, and it's combination with cognitive restructuring (systematic rational restructuring) on the socially anxious girls of 12-14 yrs. for this study 21 socially anxious subjects were matched by age, sex, education and economic background. first, they were evaluated by a number o...

Insight and treatment outcome with cognitive-behavioral social skills training for older people with schizophrenia.

Poor insight (awareness of having a mental illness that requires treatment) is common in schizophrenia and typically predicts poor outcome, yet greater insight has been linked to negative outcomes, including hopelessness. This study focused on two questions: (1) Does insight moderate the effects of cognitive-behavioral social skills training (CBSST) on functional outcomes in schizophrenia? (2) ...