Efficacy Study of a New Individualized Rehabilitation Programme for Social Cognition in Patients With Schizophrenia

"SoCIAL is composed of two modules:~1. Social Cognition Training The Emotions recognition training will train the subject's ability in discriminating between different emotional states through photos and videos. The Theory of Mind (ToM) training will help subjects discriminate between emotional expressions in social contexts and understand other people's mental state with videos that display actors expressing several emotional states. More details in Palumbo et al., 2017.~2. Narrative Enhancement Training The narrative enhancement training consists in story-telling exercises focused on improving the subject's capacity to comprehend his/her emotional experience."

Subjects that will be randomized in this group will receive their treatment as usual for the whole length of the study. TAU includes all the psychiatric therapies (pharmacological, psychological, occupational etc) that subjects may have begun before study's enrollment.