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Welcome to the new Project SUCCESS website! We have designed the website to provide background information for those interested in the project and links to resources related to our focus on improving cognition and social skills. We will also use the site to provide regular updates about project...

The Helping Ourselves Experience and Pursue Success (HOPES) curriculum is designed to introduce a new skill each week from one of 8 domains (Communicating Effectively, Making and Keeping Friends, Making the Most of Leisure Time, Living Well in the Community, Healthy Living, Intimacy and Dating...

For about one year, Project SUCCESS participants meet weekly to compare life experiences, to practice social skills, to share feelings and insights. CET participants also complete weekly computer-based exercises, typically with a partner. Comprehensive manuals for both CET and HOPES and weekly...

Behavioral interventions targeting cognitive and social skills such as CET and HOPES have shown strong evidence of feasibility, tolerability and efficacy for people with psychosis in clinical trials. Yet despite empirical evidence supporting use of these programs in routine clinical care, clinical...

This is the first of what will be regular progress updates on the Project SUCCESS website. Since the project started in January 2020, we’ll begin by reviewing what we’ve been doing since then. We were fortunate to have been able to bring together a great team of leading clinical researchers and...

Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET) comprises three integral components: individual psychotherapy, computerized neurocognitive training in pairs, and skills group. Among these, mastering the remediation of neurocognition through computerized training poses a notable challenge for clinicians...

Jonathan Delman, Behavioral Health Research Solutions Stakeholder engagement (SE) in research is the process of researchers and stakeholders working together to answer mutually chosen research questions. Stakeholders, individuals who have an interest in the research topic, goals, includes community...

Participating in Project SUCCESS enabled our Certified Community Behavioral Health Center to pilot one of the two evidence-based practices (EBP) the project compares. Here, we share a few of the implementation facilitators, barriers, and strategies we believe most influenced the delivery of the...

At the start of Project Success, The Helping Ourselves Experience and Pursue Success (HOPES) curriculum introduced a new skill module focused on Intimacy and Dating. The new module was added based on feedback from participants in previous HOPES cohorts and the frequency with which participants...