Schizophrenia: Understanding and Comparing Cognitive Enhancement and Social Skills training
Improving Social and Community Functioning
Project SUCCESS is a comparative effectiveness trial of two evidence-based treatments for persons diagnosed with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET) and Social Skills Training (SST). It is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
Project SUCCESS will answer two questions:
1) Is CET or SST more effective in improving social and community functioning?
2) Is CET more effective than SST for younger persons and for those with more impaired cognitive functioning?
Research Areas
Primary Outcomes
Social and community functioning and quality of life.
Secondary Outcomes
Neurocognition, social cognition, and social skills.
Process Data
Treatment attendance, engagement, retention, and satisfaction.
Team
Our Team On The Forefront Of Research
We are an interdisciplinary research team led by psychiatrist Matcheri Keshavan, MD and sociologist Russell Schutt, PhD in the Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard Medical School. Our co-investigators are distinguished researchers from our own department and from Boston University, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and the University of Pittsburgh. Stakeholder engagement in our research is led by national consumer advocate Jon Delman, MPH, JD, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Site Principal Investigators are research and program leaders at their home institutions. Our team also includes talented research assistants, clinicians, and administrative staff.
Our Partners
Thank You To Our Partners
