title: Can Social Functioning in Schizophrenia Be Improved through Targeted Social Cognitive Intervention?
abstract: Efforts to use cognitive remediation in psychosocial intervention for schizophrenia have increasingly incorporated social cognition as a treatment target. A distinction can be made in this work between "broad-based" interventions, which integrate social cognitive training within a multicomponent suite of intervention techniques and "targeted" interventions; which aim to enhance social cognition alone. Targeted interventions have the potential advantage of being more efficient than broad-based interventions; however, they also face difficult challenges. In particular, targeted interventions may be less likely to achieve maintenance and generalization of gains made in treatment. A novel potential solution to this problem is described which draws on the social psychological literature on social cognition.
authors: Division of Schizophrenia and Related Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7797, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
authors: David L
authors: DL
authors: Roberts
authors: Dawn I
authors: DI
authors: Velligan