Jurnal Psikiatri Surabaya (Surabaya Psychiatry Journal)
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2020): May

Cognitive Enhancement Therapy in Schizophrenia

Zain Budi Syulthoni (Departemen/ SMF Ilmu Kedokteran Jiwa Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Airlangga/ RSUD Dr. Soetomo Surabaya)
I Gusti Ngurah Gunadi (Departemen/ SMF Ilmu Kedokteran Jiwa Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Airlangga/ RSUD Dr. Soetomo Surabaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2020

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and debilitate mental disorder that causing disability. Factors that causing disability is cognitive impairment. Cognitive impairment caused by disturbance in neurodevelopmental process of the brain that related to Dopaminergic, GABA-ergic, and Acethylcholinergic pathway. Cognitive Enhancement Therapy is additional therapy to recovery the cognitive function. CET facilitated repairmenin socio and non-socio cognitive function, encourage patient behaviour related social condition, develop patient understanding of schizophrenia and the impact on cognitive impair- ment, and rehabilitation program that characterised of an experiential and exercise to repair the non-social cognitive function (attention, memmory, and problem solving). CET shows improvement in early or late onset of schizophrenia. Pa- tients who got CET can back to work. Now, CET is used for early intervention in cognitive impairment in Schizophrenia. CET was also developed in patients with Schizoaffective, Schizophrenia comorbid with drug abuse, and patientswith au- tism. Hopefully, the improvement onquality of life patient with schizophrenia can achieve with combination pharmacother- apy and Cognitive Enhancement Therapy.

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JPS

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Health Professions Medicine & Pharmacology

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Jurnal Psikiatri Surabaya (JPS) is a scientific publication every 6 months (semester). JPS accepts submissions in the form of original manuscripts, literature review, case reports, and editorials in Indonesian in the format of Enhanced Spelling or English in accordance with the scope of Psychology, ...