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"social skills training"
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for schizophrenia: A review
This article describes the role that cognitive behavioral therapy has as an adjunct antipsychotic medication and remediative approaches such as social skills training in the management of residual symptoms of chronic schizophrenia. The article mentions that CBT can be combined with family therapy and assertive community treatment programs to reduce relapse and that ACT could complement the delivery of individual CBT.
Keywords:
atypical antipsychotics
cognitive remediation
family interventions
negative symptoms
positive symptoms
psychoeducation
psychotherapy
residual symptoms
schizophrenia
social skills training
cognitive-behavioural therapy (cbt)
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Turkington, D., Dudley, R., Warman, D.M., & Beck, A.T. (2004). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for schizophrenia: A review. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 10 (1), 5-16.