Background: How to improve treatment for negative symptoms is a continuing topic of
debate. Suggestions have been made to advance psychological understanding of negative …

Background People with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have significant social and functional
difficulties. Social cognition was found to influences these outcomes and in recent years …

Background An influential psychological model of persecutory delusions proposed that they
are caused by a bias towards holding others responsible for negative events (an …

BackgroundAims were to assess the efficacy of metacognitive training (MCT) in people with
a recent onset of psychosis in terms of symptoms as a primary outcome and metacognitive …

Objective To compare the profile of attributional style of a group of out‐patients with bipolar
disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ), and a group of healthy controls–along with other …

Purpose The concept of maximising well-being, as opposed to merely treating mental
disorder, is a powerful current theme in the area of mental health. Clearly this emphasises …

BackgroundThe relationship between well-being and mental ill health is complex; people
may experience very low levels of well-being even in the absence of overt mental health …

Over the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in the study of social
impairment in schizophrenia. However, the concept of social functioning has been poorly …

Growing evidence indicates that social cognitive deficits are important, unique determinants
of poor functional outcome in schizophrenia. These findings have generated considerable …

Negative symptoms and cognitive deficits are difficult-to-treat symptoms of schizophrenia. In
this single blind randomized controlled study, we compared change in social cognitive …