The Effectiveness of the Meta-cognitive Training Among Patients With Chronic Schizophrenia

The meta-cognitive training (the MCT) consists of eight structurized psychological therapy modules that provides basic knowledge about cognitive biases that are associated with schizophrenia and it provides the sklills how to overcome negative consequences of the biases. The MCT includes: Module 1 manages self-serving bias (i.e. external-personal attribution for failure, internal attribution for positive events); Module 2 and 7 target the jumping to conclusion; Module 3 and 7 concern beliefs flexibility and bias against disconfirmatory evidence; Module 4 and 6 target deficits in theory of mind; Module 5 is devote to ameliorate the cognitive over-confidence in false memories; Module 8 deals with depressive thinking style.