Cognitive Remediation for Social Cognition in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders

Más betegség

• Evidence of an organic cause for cognitive difficulties (e.g. neurological disease, history of brain trauma)
• History of mental retardation or autism spectrum disorder

Egyéb

• Being hospitalized at the time of recruitment
• Inability to speak or read French or English

• DSM-5 diagnosis of schizophrenia or a related psychotic disorder
• Being followed and treated by a clinician of the Douglas Mental Health University Hospital
• Being 18 or older
• Having an objective difficulty in social cognition (i.e. emotion recognition, theory of mind, attributional bias, social perception) defined as a performance equal of below 1 standard deviation from the normative group on one of the following measures: Penn Emotion Recognition Task (ER-40; Emotion recognition), Combined Stories Test (COST; Theory of mind), Social Knowledge test (SKT; Social knowledge) or Interpersonal, Personal and Situational Attributions Questionnaire (IPSAQ; Attributional style). This criterion is mandatory since we need to be able to remediate a difficulty during cognitive remediation.
• Being considered symptomatically stable and capable of using the online platforms, as judged by their primary clinicians (i.e., psychiatrist, case manager, psychologist)
• Having access to digital technology, Internet and access to a private space (a room where the participant can be alone)
• Being able to nominate an emergency contact