Treatment

BRIEF SUMMARY

• Basic Description: "Integrated Psychological Treatment (IPT) is a group-based CBT program for schizophrenia that integrates neurocognitive and social cognitive remediation with psychosocial rehabilitation. IPT is based on the underlying assumption that basic deficits in neurocognitive functioning have a pervasive effect on higher levels of behavioral organization, including social skills and social and independent functioning.^9,34–36 Based on this, successful psychosocial rehabilitation requires remediation of both underlying neurocognitive impairments and related social cognitive deficits, as well as building social, self-care, and vocational skills. IPT strives to integrate neurocognitive with psychosocial rehabilitation in a systematic, manualized fashion with the end goal of improved social competence."

  Roder, V., Mueller, D. R., Mueser, K. T., & Brenner, H. D. (2006). Integrated psychological therapy (IPT) for schizophrenia: is it effective?. Schizophrenia bulletin, 32(suppl_1), S81-S93.
  

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CRITICAL STUDIES

Group therapy for schizophrenia: A meta-analysis (Burlingame et al., 2020)

The influence of early psychosocial intervention on the long-term clinical outcomes of people suffering from schizophrenia (Cechnicki & Bielańska, 2017)

Interventi integrati nella schizofrenia: Uno studio controllato sul contributo della terapia di gruppo [Integrated treatment for chronic schizophrenic patients: A controlled study on group psychotherapy supply] (Di Giannatonio et al., 2004)

Application of the IPT in a Spanish sample: evaluation for the" social perception subprogramme" (Durá et al., 2003)