title: Rehabilitation of executive functions in a real-life setting: goal management training applied to a person with schizophrenia.
abstract: The aim was to assess the efficacy of a modified version of Goal Management Training (GMT) in a person with schizophrenia who had difficulties in attaining the final goal for new and multitasking daily-life situations. GMT is designed to improve abilities in establishing goal-directed plans and carrying them out effectively. Beneficial effects of GMT were measured for several clinical questionnaires, laboratory tasks, and three real-life situations: meal preparation (trained, familiar); washing (nontrained, familiar); meeting preparation (nontrained, unfamiliar). The results revealed improvement in planning and on trained laboratory and meal preparation tasks and a generalization of GMT effects on nontrained laboratory and everyday tasks. Self-esteem also improved. Finally, a two-year followup indicated the durability of the beneficial effects.
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Psychopathology Unit, Department of Psychology, Cognition and Behavior, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium ; Psychiatry Service I, Inserm 666 Unit, 67091 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: M-N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Levaux
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Larøi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Malmedier
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Offerlin-Meyer
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Danion
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van der Linden