T Wykes

..The results of one randomised control trial testing a psychological rehabilitation programme aimed at information processing strategies showed improvements in cognition post-treatment...

..Cognitive difficulties are prevalent in people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and are associated with poor long-term functioning...

..The aim of the current study is to explore the experience of group-CBT amongst a group of young people experiencing distressing auditory hallucinations...

..The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of CRT in alleviating cognitive deficits compared to treatment as usual and explore the mediating and moderating effects of cognitive improvement...

..This review summarizes findings of induced cognitive change in schizophrenia, with reference to the remediation method, the presence of accompanying treatment(s), how cognitive change generalizes and its value...

..At the end of treatment, CRT conferred a benefit to people with schizophrenia in cognition and self-esteem [Schizophr. Bull. 25 (1999) 291]. This study investigates these outcomes 6 months after the therapies were withdrawn...

..But recent advances have widened the CBTp targets to other symptoms and have different methods of provision, eg, in groups...

..This study tested whether a group based on cognitive behavioural principles could produce beneficial effects on hallucinations...

..The current review tries to put this evidence into context and sets out a programme of research, which is essential in this area if future progress is to be made...

..The level of response inhibition difficulties (about one-third) was identical in the new sample of patients, which suggests that response inhibition is not dependent on clinical history...

..We aimed to operationalize a multi-axial model of continuity of care and to use factor analysis to determine its validity for severe mental illness...

..Cognitive-behavioural therapy has been shown to be effective in reducing psychotic symptoms, but few patients have access to these services. Group cognitive treatment may provide a less costly service with similar benefits...

..We discuss the implications for harnessing computerised CBM therapy developments for co-morbid anxiety in schizophrenia...

..Nonclinical depressed subjects may respond "catastrophically" to errors, heightening the subjective sense of failure and contributing to the strong relationship between subjectively reported cognitive failures and depression...

..A programme of targeted training may be a more realistic and efficient method of enhancing medication management practices in large numbers of CPNs compared to the more expensive and time-consuming Thorn programme...

..We used a paradigm that engages verbal self-monitoring (VSM) to examine whether this process is impaired in people experiencing prodromal symptoms, who have a very high risk of developing psychosis...

..It was hypothesized that low self-esteem is prominent in, and contributes to, depression in voice hearers...

..The executive profile, therefore, is related to symptom type rather than chronicity...

..Cognitive remediation (CR) therapy in its various disguises can be helpful for people with schizophrenia but it is not clear if patient characteristics are likely to interfere with its effectiveness...

..There is a lack of evidence on the cost-effectiveness of cognitive remediation therapy (CRT)...

..The study examined whether data collected by researchers who were service users differed from data collected by non-service user researchers in a study that measured perceived coercion...

..Improvement in the ability to generate new schemas has a beneficial impact on social functioning...

..To ascertain patients' views on the benefits of and possible memory loss from electroconvulsive therapy...

..Further investigation in larger samples is needed to confirm this finding and to explore its generalizability to those with less severe deficits...

..Both cognitive processes and negative symptoms should be targeted in cognitive remediation to effect the greatest change in community functions...

..Regardless of treatment type, increased response inhibition speed was associated with reduced negative symptoms. Stimulus-driven responding and response inhibition speed may therefore make useful targets for intervention...

..However, studies offering supporting evidence have failed to distinguish between metacognitive beliefs about the consequences of having certain thoughts, and metacognitive beliefs about one's own cognitive skills...

..Non-compliance attenuates the efficacy of treatments for physical and mental disorders...

..Conclusions. In this uncontrolled study training improved the medication management skills of CMHNs...

..The final measure is subject to psychometric testing both to ensure it is robust and to explore similarities and differences with conventionally derived measures...

..Further investigation of whether it is possible to change idiosyncratic strategy use is needed if we are to develop the efficacy of this remediation technique...

..However, interventions, such as compliance therapy, based on cognitive-behavioural techniques appear to be effective in enhancing compliance and preventing relapse...

..The costs and the effectiveness of mental health services need to be evaluated if provision is to be efficient. Service use and costs are described for two geographical areas in south London...

..In contrast to others, this measure has been generated from the perspectives of service users. As continuity of care is a concern particularly for those with severe mental illness, we have confined our work to this population group...

..The study suggests that SPAN performance can be improved in young people with early onset psychosis using relatively simple interventions and that performance gains are relatively durable...

..We consider the research and clinical priorities to be the further developments of CBT and family intervention methods, which could have significant benefits for sufferers of schizophrenia and their carers...

..The articles in this special section report on the results of the first conference, which used a criterion-based consensus-building process to develop a set of cognitive constructs to be targeted for translation efforts...

..We conclude cautiously that overall there is good evidence for the efficacy and effectiveness of CBTp in the treatment of schizophrenia...

..Significant reductions in auditory hallucinations occurred over the total treatment phase, but not over the waiting period. Further investigations in the form of randomized controlled trials are warranted...

..quot; This criterion is problematic because different observers and constituencies often have different opinions about what types of change are clinically important and how much change is significant...

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