title: [Treatment of metacognitive impairments in schizophrenia - The Metacognitive Training].
abstract: In the recent years plenty of therapeutic treatment methods have been developed, aimed at neurocognitive impairments in schizophrenia. These trainingprograms can hold up promising results in the improvement of neurocognitive functions. Nevertheless the generalisation on the daily life is not perspicuous. A reason for it might be the supposition, that further factors such as metacognition and social cognition may play a mediator role between neurocognition and functional outcomes. As a result, many socialcognitive remediation methods and programs have emerged targeting the impairment of deficits both in the field of neuro- and social cognition and deficits of metacognition. We review the specific impairments in schizophrenia (e.g. deficits of Theory of Mind, disorder of emotional perception, specific cognitive biases or impairment of metamemory), the construction and speciality of the Metacognitive Training, and the findings of studies aimed at the efficacy of the method. In addition to the socialcognitive remediation, the goal of Metacognitive Training is the correction of the cognitive biases playing an important role in the emergence and subsistence of delusions.
authors.affiliation: SZSZBMK-JAOK, Pszichiatriai es Pszichoterapias Osztaly, Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, E-mail: fekete.zita4@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Zita
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Fekete
authors.forename: Edit
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vass
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kancsev
authors.forename: Ildikó
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kuritárné Szabó
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology