This introductory guide to the clinical application of social skills training with psychiatric
patients systematically provides clinicians with the ingredients necessary to start and run their …

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

With the recognition that most psychiatric disorders are associated with severe and persisting
disability and the development of effective procedures for improving the long-term outcome …

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 …

Although precise laboratory methods for measuring psychopathology are not available,
interviewer-rated instruments developed to assess symptomatology can be used to monitor …

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 …

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

Social skills training methods represent a major strategy for psychiatric rehabilitation. Building
skills in patients with schizophrenic and other major mental disorders is based on the …

Although effective treatment for schizophrenia is available, patients' compliance with
treatment prescriptions is notoriously poor. The authors reframe compliance as a collaborative …

The literature dealing with social skills training of schizophrenic patients indicates that
topographical features and self-reports of anxiety and discomfort can be changed for the better by …