Treatment

BRIEF SUMMARY

• Basic Description: "Metacognitive training (MCT) is a structured group intervention, which enhances a patient's reflection on cognitive biases and improves problem-solving. Metacognitive training (MCT) is a new group treatment programme developed for patients with schizophrenia (Moritz and Woodward, 2007a, Moritz and Woodward, 2007b, Moritz et al., 2005) to improve patient thinking regarding their biased thoughts by enhancing metacognitive skills."

  Briki, M., Monnin, J., Haffen, E., Sechter, D., Favrod, J., Netillard, C., ... & Vandel, P. (2014). Metacognitive training for schizophrenia: a multicentre randomised controlled trial. Schizophrenia research, 157(1-3), 99-106.

TREATMENT RESOURCES

TREATMENT MANUALS

Social skills training for schizophrenia: A step-by-step guide (Bellack et al., 2013)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Metacognition-oriented social skills training (MOSST): Theoretical framework, working methodology and treatment description for patients with schizophrenia (Inchausti, 2017)

Metacognitive Training (MCT) for Psychosis

CRITICAL STUDIES

Metacognitive training for patients with schizophrenia (MCT): feasibility and preliminary evidence for its efficacy (Aghotor et al., 2010)

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

Sustained antipsychotic effect of metacognitive training in psychosis: a randomized-controlled study (Favrod et al., 2014)

The effects of metacognition-oriented social skills training on psychosocial outcome in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a randomized controlled trial (Inchausti et al., 2018)

Effect of meta-cognitive training in the reduction of positive symptoms in schizophrenia (Kumar et al., 2010)

Antipsychotic treatment beyond antipsychotics: metacognitive intervention for schizophrenia patients improves delusional symptoms (Moritz et al., 2011)

Sustained and “sleeper” effects of group metacognitive training for schizophrenia: a randomized clinical trial (Moritz et al., 2014)

Complementary group Metacognitive Training (MCT) reduces delusional ideation in schizophrenia (Moritz et al., 2013)

Randomized control trial to assess the efficacy of metacognitive training compared with a psycho-educational group in people with a recent-onset psychosis (Ochoa et al., 2017)