Metacognitive Training

Metacognitive training (MCT) is an approach developed by Steffen Moritz and Todd Woodward for treating the symptoms of psychosis in schizophrenia, especially delusions, and has since been adapted for other disorders including depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder. Based on the theoretical principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, it focuses in particular on problematic thinking styles, or cognitive biases, associated with the development and maintenance of positive psychotic symptoms, such as overconfidence in errors and jumping to conclusions. It exists both as a group training (MCT) and as an individualized intervention (MCT+).