Planning and problem-solving training for patients with schizophrenia: A randomized controlled trial

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rodewald, Katlehn ^a   Rentrop, Mirjam ^a   Holt, Daniel V ^a   Roesch Ely, Daniela ^a   Backenstraß, Matthias ^b   Funke, Joachim ^a   Weisbrod, Matthias ^a,c   Kaiser, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Bürger Hospital   (Germany)

^c SRH Hospital Karlsbad Langensteinbach   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; WORK CAPACITY;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 79955139262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-73     Document Type: Article

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