title: Development of the Positive Emotions Program for Schizophrenia: An Intervention to Improve Pleasure and Motivation in Schizophrenia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The efficacy of drug-based treatments and psychological interventions on the primary negative symptoms of schizophrenia remains limited. Recent literature has distinguished negative symptoms associated with a diminished capacity to experience, from those associated with a limited capacity for expression. The positive emotions program for schizophrenia (PEPS) is a new method that specifically aims to reduce the syndrome of a diminished capacity to experience.
  
  
  METHODS
  The intervention's vital ingredients were identified through a literature review of emotion in schizophrenia and positive psychology. The program has been beta-tested on various groups of health-care professionals.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A detailed description of the final version of PEPS is presented here. The French version of the program is freely downloadable.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  PEPS is a specific, short, easy to use, group-based intervention to improve pleasure, and motivation in schizophrenia. It was built considering a recovery-oriented approach to schizophrenia.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing Science La Source, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland , Lausanne , Switzerland.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing Science La Source, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland , Lausanne , Switzerland.
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Frobert
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing Science La Source, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland; Social Psychiatry Section, Community Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Iannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: McCluskey
authors.affiliation: Social Psychiatry Section, Community Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center , Lausanne , Switzerland.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Golay
authors.affiliation: Social Psychiatry Section, Community Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center , Lausanne , Switzerland.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bonsack
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing Science La Source, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland; Social Psychiatry Section, Community Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Jérôme
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Favrod
keywords: anhedonia; apathy; motivation; pleasure; psychosocial interventions; schizophrenia