Cognitive Remediation to Improve Functional Outcomes

Alice Medalia, PhD, is Professor of Medical Psychology and Director of Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Columbia University Medical Center, and Clinical Director of Cognitive Health Services at New York State Office of Mental Health. She is an international leader in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation and is best known for her work treating cognitive deficits in people with psychiatric disorders.Christopher R. Bowie, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and an Independent Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Ontario. His laboratory and clinical work focus on the treatment of cognitive disorders in people with mental illness.

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the EditorsContributorsIntroduction Chapter 1: Cognitive Remediation for Psychological Disorders: An Overview Matthew M. Kurtz Chapter 2: Assessment as it Relates to Functional Goals Philip D. Harvey and Richard S.E. Keefe Chapter 3: Treatment Planning Alice Saperstein and Alice Medalia Chapter 4: Bridging Groups Christopher R. Bowie and Alice Medalia Chapter 5: A Metacognitive Approach to Cognitive Remediation: Why We Need to Attend to It to Produce Functional Outcomes Til Wykes, Adam Crowther, and Clare Reeder Chapter 6: Implementation and Dissemination of Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices Frances Dark Chapter 7: Addressing Cognitive Distortions, Dysfuctional Attitudes, and Low Engagement in Cognitive Remediation Christopher R. Bowie and Maya Gupta Chapter 8: How to Assess and Choose Computerized Cognitive Exercises Tiffany Herlands and Alice Medalia Chapter 9: Compensatory Approaches to Improving Functioning Elizabeth W. Twamley Chapter 10: Integrating Social Cognitive Training William P. Horan, David L. Roberts, and Katherine Holshausen Index

"The editors and authors of this book address one of the greatest challenges in psychiatry: available pharmacotherapy has little impact on the functional disability that is characteristic of people with psychotic disorders. Here, the leading experts in the field show that cognitive remediation is an approach, available today, which may enhance the recovery of people challenged by psychotic disorders. Clinicians, students, researchers, and policy makersinterested in the care for people with psychosis should all be familiar with this work." --James M. Gold, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine"Written by noted experts in cognitive and social cognitive remediation, this book addresses a key, and often neglected, need in psychiatric rehabilitation. Decades of work have been devoted to developing ways to improve cognitive performance for individuals who have severe mental illness. The impetus for these interventions is a desire to improve the lives of patients, yet we know rather little about how to make this happen. Cognitive Remediation toImprove Functional Outcomes focuses on the critical step of moving beyond improving cognition to improving daily life." --Michael F. Green, PhD. Professor-in-Residence, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA