Abstract

GUTIERREZ RUIZ, Karol. Neuropsychological Evaluation of Social Cognition in Schizophrenia. Pensam. psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.2, pp.103-123. ISSN 1657-8961.

Objective. Social cognition has become a valuable construct for the study and understanding of the nature of schizophrenia, in particular to account for the difficulties in the social functioning characteristics of the disorder. The terms used to refer to the social cognition, its definition and associated subdomains vary widely from one scientific paper to another. This has made the construct assessment an especially difficult endeavor, which has limited communication in the scientific field of its area and the direct comparison of findings across studies. Given this situation, a systematic review of the literature is made in this paper on social cognition in schizophrenia in order to define the construct, identify the main domains and subdomains, levels of complexity and instruments most used in the assessment. Method. First, we reviewed the electronic data bases ISI Web of Knowledge, Medline, CSIC, PsycINFO and Academic Search Complete, seeking the terms social cognition schizophrenia, and psychosis, separately, without field restriction, time limit, and limited to the English and Spanish languages. Results. Having identified the subdomains, their levels of complexity are determined and described, as well as the instruments most used for evaluation. Conclusion. Finally, an integrative proposal is presented of the aspects that should be taken into account for the neuropsychological assessment of social cognition in schizophrenia.

Keywords : Social cognition; schizophrenia; neuropsychological assessment.

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