Cognitive Remediation with Functional Skills Training Effective in Schizophrenia

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Researchers from Canada and the U.S. report, in findings published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, that cognitive remediation robustly improved neurocognition after 12 weeks in 107 people with schizophrenia diagnoses. Social competence improved with functional skills training. Both approaches together, however, were more likely to result in  functional competence that generalized to real-world behavior.

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Kermit Cole
Kermit Cole is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He and his partner, Luisa Putnam, joined by their mutual interest in working with trauma and psychosis, studied Open Dialogue in Finland and Peer-supported Open Dialogue in the UK in order to practice and teach as a team. In 2011, they joined with Robert Whitaker to found the Mad in America website

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