A comprehensive cognitive-behavioral/educational program for schizophrenic patients

Abstract

Modern treatment of schizophrenia emphasizes pharmacology and nonspecific rehabilitative strategies, but there is renewed interest in psychologically oriented treatments as well. Borrowing from dynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and psychoeducational traditions, the authors describe a program aimed at teaching patients with schizophrenia about their illness and at addressing key cognitive, social, and emotional areas of difficulty from which they generally suffer. The authors document the enthusiasm of the patients for such an approach and provide a case example.