Abstract: Abstract It is well established that many people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia experience significant problems with thinking skills such as concentration, memory, comprehension of social information, reasoning, and organization. These are often experienced by the individuals themselves as debilitating and demoralizing, but crucially, they also can limit people in their capacity to achieve fundamental life goals, such as working, having fulfilling relationships and living independently, which underpin well‐being and a satisfactory quality of life. Cognitive remediation for schizophrenia is a psychological therapy that aims to improve thinking skills and consequently to benefit other more general areas of functioning and improve quality of life. This entry will summarize the foundational research background to the development and effectiveness of cognitive remediation; and the cutting‐edge research into the developments in our understanding of the mechanisms of cognitive change and its relationship to improvements in everyday functioning, and new applications for cognitive remediation. The key aims for the field of cognitive remediation are now (i) to optimize its effectiveness in improving cognitive skills, but critically, in a way that ensures that these cognitive improvements have a measurable impact on other more general life skills, and (ii) to facilitate the wider dissemination of cognitive remediation into the clinical community. To achieve these goals, we need to establish an evidence‐based, theoretical underpinning to cognitive remediation, including an understanding of the active ingredients and how best to deliver the therapy.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-05-15
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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