Efficacious psychological treatments for schizophrenia

Efficacious psychological treatments for schizophrenia. The empirical status of psychological approaches to schizophrenia is presented. A review of outcome studies identifies four broad psychological treatment procedures in the last decades: family psychoeducational interventions, social skills training, cognitive-behavioural therapies for psychotic symptoms, and multimodal integrated packages (Roder, Brenner, Hodel, & Kienzie, 1996). Theoretical issues, such as ecological validity of every intervention procedure, are briefly addressed, and finally some practical principles are suggested.