Social skills training consists of learning activities utilizing behavioral techniques that enable
persons with schizophrenia and other disabling mental disorders to acquire interpersonal …

Psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation are integrated, seamless approaches aimed at
restoring persons with major mental disorders to their best possible level of functioning and …

Schizophrenia is often conceptualized by clinicians and researchers alike as a chronic illness
with persisting, relapsing or deteriorating symptoms, and no hope for sustained remission …

The US Surgeon General's report Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity—A Supplement
to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (US Department of Health and Human …

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a skills training program designed to teach disease
management to Latinos with schizophrenia treated at a community mental health center. …

Open Forum a period of sobriety, the use of an operational definition of recovery requires
them to remain abstinent for a defined period and to function with a “clean and sober,” normal …

OBJECTIVE: The authors compared the community functioning of outpatients with persistent
forms of schizophrenia after treatment with psychosocial occupational therapy or social …

A large body of research supports the efficacy of psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia,
particularly learning-based therapies. The Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team …

While much professional interest, public advocacy and media attention accompanied the
neuroscientific research advances of the Decade of the Brain, much less prominence was …

Background: The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) has been the workhorse of psychopathology
assessment in studies of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders for over 40 …