The current empirical evidence assumes a connection between certain cognitive biases, such as jumping to conclusions, and the development and maintenance of psychosis.
Patients are instructed to critically reflect on their thought patterns, which may contribute to problematic behaviors, and to implement the contents of the training in everyday life.
MCT deals with the following problematic styles of thinking: monocausal attributions, jumping to conclusions, inflexibility, problems in social cognition, overconfidence for memory errors and depressive thought patterns.
[8][12] A meta-analysis [13] based on 43 studies (N = 1,816 individuals) showed that MCT improved delusions, hallucinations, cognitive biases, negative symptoms and functioning.
MCT is recommended as an evidence-based treatment by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists[14] as well as the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.