ABSTRACT
CRT is now an established form of psychological therapy for a schizophrenia diagnosis. Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) first emerged as a means to improve cognitive functioning in people who had sustained a traumatic brain injury. It is recommended within some governmental guidelines and is increasingly becoming accepted as part of routine clinical practice. A concentration of efforts on cognition, particularly in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, has been due to the noted associations between cognition and future functioning, and because poorer cognition limited these same recovery outcomes even when every effort was made with state of the art rehabilitation programmes. Although some early studies of cognitive remediation (CR), investigating behavioral strategies such as verbalization of action instructions appeared to be effective in improving certain cognitive skills in schizophrenia, it wasn't until cognitive deficits began to be revisited as a core feature of schizophrenia, that cognition came to be considered a potentially worthy treatment target in schizophrenia.
