REFLEX, a social-cognitive group treatment to improve insight in schizophrenia: Study protocol of a multi-center RCT

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pijnenborg, GHM ^a,b,d   Van der Gaag, Mark ^e,f   Bockting, Claudi L H ^b   Van der Meer, Lisette ^c,d   Aleman, André ^b,d  

^a GGZ Drenthe ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Longterm Rehabilitation   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Insight; Perspective taking; Schizophrenia; Self reflection; Self stigma; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; GROUP THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 80053478561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-161     Document Type: Article

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