Mobile CBT for Negative Symptoms

mCBTn combines the CBT-informed components that target defeatist attitudes from Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training (CBSST) group skills training and mobile smartphone interventions from our prior clinical trials research.

The SC intervention will provide the same amount of group and mobile device contact as the mCBTn condition. Participants will be carrying a phone but will not have access to the CBT-informed app. Group contact sessions will be semi-structured and consist of trouble-shooting device use and check-in about symptoms and potential crisis management, followed by a flexible discussion involving psychoeducation, instructions for accessing community crisis lines and related community resources, empathy, and non-directive reinforcement of health, coping, and symptom management behaviors that grow out of group discussions, with only minimal group leader guidance.