Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) for Taiwanese People With Severe Mental Illness

Social cognition dysfunction (including emotional perception, theory of mind, and attribution bias) is a common dysfunction in serious mental illness, which may influence their life roles and daily functions. The social cognition and interaction training (SCIT) is a manual-guide group intervention that can apply to people with serious mental illness.Thus this study aims to conduct SCIT groups in Taiwan to investigate its feasibility and effectiveness. This study will include 30 clients. Investigators will randomly allot participants into two group, and conduct a crossover design. The experimental group will receive a 60-minutes manual-guide SCIT session each week for 20 times, which will be leaded by 2 licensed occupational therapists. After the intervention, investigators will analyze demographic data and compare the difference between experimental group and control group on the social cognition performance.