Metacognitive Training/Therapy (MCT) for psychosis targets delusions, using a back door approach by helping clients gain insight into the cognitive biases behind delusions, followed by attempts to plant the seeds of doubt, and weaken delusional beliefs.
What is metacognitive therapy?
An Interview with Prof. Adrian Wells
How to apply MCT, including the evidence.
A very complete manual on MCT for psychosis in German, English, Dutch and French and many other languages from the university clinic of Hamburg
Sowing the seeds of doubt: a narrative review on metacognitive training in schizophrenia
Steffen Moritza, Christina Andreoua, Brooke C. Schneidera, Charlotte E. Wittekinda, Mahesh Menonb, c, Ryan P. Balzand, Todd S. Woodwardb, c
Sustained and "Sleeper" Effects of Group Metacognitive Training for Schizophrenia, A Randomized Clinical Trial, Steffen Moritz, et al
Brooke Schneider et al
Psychological interventions are increasingly recommended as adjunctive treatments for psychosis, but their implementation in clinical practice is still insufficient. The individualized metacognitive therapy program (MCT+; www.uke.de/mct_plus ) represents a low-threshold psychotherapeutic approach that synthesizes group metacognitive training (MCT) and cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis, and addresses specific cognitive biases that are involved
