Mobile-Assisted Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia

The primary purpose of this project is to test whether a psychosocial intervention, Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training (CBSST) combined with a smartphone-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for negative symptoms called, Mobile-assisted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Negative Symptoms (mCBTn) can reduce defeatist performance attitudes in consumers with schizophrenia spectrum disorders with persistent moderate-to-severe experiential negative symptoms.The project will also identify the optimal dose to engage the defeatist attitude target. Pupillary responses, an objective psychophysiological biomarker of effort, will be recorded during a cognitive task as a secondary outcome to determine its potential as an end point in clinical trials of motivation and effort.