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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...

What if a simple scratch-and-sniff test could predict successful outcomes from psychosocial interventions for people with schizophrenia? That’s the primary question we are asking in a NIMH-funded study linked to Project SUCCESS, which is titled, “ What the Nose Knows: Hedonic Capacity, Psychosocial...

Keeping track of attendance in the services provided by CET and HOPES is an important part of learning about their effectiveness. No matter how strong the evidence that a service improves functioning, it can only be effective if people participate. So, we’ve been very pleased by the high levels of...

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...

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...