Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training for Patients With Late-Life Schizophrenia: a Pilot Study

Inclusion Criteria

• •Age 60 years and above.
• •All races and ethnicities.
• •Females and males.
• •Meets DSM-IV TR criteria for a current diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform, delusional disorder, or psychotic disorder NOS.
• •Clinically stable as operationalized by (1) having not been admitted to a psychiatric hospital within the 3 months prior to assessment, (2) having had no change in antipsychotic medication dosage within the 4 weeks prior to assessment, and (3) and ascertained to be clinically stable by one the study psychiatrists.
• •Willingness and ability to speak English
• •Willingness to provide informed consent
• •Corrected visual ability that enables reading of newspaper headlines and corrected hearing capacity that is adequate to respond to a raised conversational voice.