MCT 9 I – 自尊心

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Your generosity enables us to regularly update and expand the MCT materials, conduct rigorous scientific evaluations, and translate the program into additional languages—allowing more people worldwide to access effective, low-threshold support.

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Please note that we have also developed certified e-trainings for MCT for psychosis ( www.uke.de/e-mct ) and D-MCT for depression ( www.uke.de/e-dmct ) for therapists. For an e-learning on body-focused repetitive behaviors, see www.uke.de/e-bfrb-training .

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Are you a clinician or researcher and would like to receive the manual as well as review articles? Please press below. If you administer metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT), please send us a short notification. We are grateful for comments, criticisms and recommendations for improvement. Interested in our e-learning showing you how to facilitate the intervention? Please click here .

Translators and co-authors: Dr. Yuan Zhou ( [email protected] ) and Lai Yin Tsang ( [email protected] ). We are also very grateful to Dr. Suzanne Ho ( [email protected] ) for further modifcations.

Manual and overview articles can be obtained via online registration . Some reviews can also be downloaded from the MCT main page (at the bottom). Dissatisfied with some modules? No problem - become a member of our open source initiative ! Subscribe to our newsletter and stay updated on the latest developments.

Reminder

Every MCT participant receives a yellow and a red card that easily fit into a purse. The yellow card asks three essential questions, which may help to prevent the formation of hasty, false and consequential conclusions:

What is the evidence?

Are there alternative views?

Even if it's like that...am I over-reacting?

On the red card, the patient is encouraged to write down the names of persons and institutions with corresponding telephone numbers who may help when a crisis occurs.

Liu, Y. C., Tang, C. C., Hung, T. T., Tsai, P. C., & Lin, M. F. (2018). The efficacy of Metacognitive Training for delusions in patients with schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials informs evidence-based practice. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 15 , 130–139.

Meinhart, A., Sauvé, G., Schmueser, A., Penney, D., Berna, F., Gawęda, Ł., Lamarca, M., Moritz, S., Ochoa, S., König, C., Acuña, V., & Fischer, R. (2025). Metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT): a systematic meta-review of its effectiveness. Translational Psychiatry , 15 (1), 156. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-025-03344-0

Moritz S. , Andreou, C., Schneider, B. C., Wittekind, C. E., Menon, M., Balzan, R. P., & Woodward, T. S. (2014). Sowing the seeds of doubt: a narrative review on Metacognitive Training in schizophrenia. Clinical Psychology Review, 34 , 358–366.

Moritz, S., Krieger, E., Bohn, F., & Veckenstedt, R. (2017). MKT+: Individualisiertes metakognitives Therapieprogramm für Menschen mit Psychose (2. Aufl.). Heidelberg: Springer.

Moritz, S., Veckenstedt, R., Bohn. F., Köther, U., & Woodward, T. S. (2013). Metacognitive Training in schizophrenia. Theoretical rationale and administration . In D. L. Roberts & D. L. Penn (Eds.), Social cognition in schizophrenia. From evidence to treatment (pp. 358–383). New York: Oxford University Press.

Moritz, S., Veckenstedt, R., Randjbar, S., & Vitzthum, F. (2010a). MKT+: Individualisiertes metakognitives Therapieprogramm für Menschen mit Psychose. Heidelberg: Springer.

Moritz, S., Vitzthum, F., Randjbar, S., Veckenstedt, R., & Woodward, T. S. (2010b). Detecting and defusing cognitive traps: metacognitive intervention in schizophrenia. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 23 , 561–569.

Help us to help others!

Given the limited budgets in many psychiatric hospitals, it is our goal to ensure that MCT remains accessible to anyone interested in using it. However, maintaining the MCT program, as well as continuing to improve and develop it, requires significant personnel and financial resources. If you want to support MCT, we would be very grateful for donations. We will, of course, continue to provide support and assistance to anyone using the program.

Thank you for your continued support. We guarantee that all donations will go to the further development of MCT (future tasks: translation of modules into other languages, new graphics, hiring of students to perform MCT in institutions). On request, we can send you a receipt for your donation: please send an email to Steffen Moritz ( [email protected] ) and include your mail address. Please inquire about different possibilities for sponsorships.

Metacognitive Training Programs (MCT)

Our Neuropsychology and Psychotherapy Research Unit has developed several training programs for individual or group treatment, some of which are designed for self-help. The most frequently requested programs are listed below. Additional information is available under the Metacognitive Training and Interventions menu items.

MCT for Psychosis

MCT for Depression

Decoupling for impulse control disorders

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