Alan S. Bellack

Toward a Terminology for Functional Recovery in Schizophrenia: Is Functional Remission a Viable Concept? (2009)

Harvey, Philip D., Bellack, Alan S.

Recovery in schizophrenia is receiving increasing attention. Part of the increased focus is based on the recent working criteria for clinical remission in schizophrenia and the realization that many...

Abstract A Review of Cognitive Training in Schizophrenia (2008)

Elizabeth W. Twamley, Dilip V. Jeste, Alan S. Bellack

Empirically supported treatments for schizophrenia now include a variety of psychosocial interventions, such as social skills training, vocational rehabilitation, and psychotherapy. As awareness of...

Social/Communication Skills, Cognition, and Vocational Functioning in Schizophrenia (2007)

Dickinson, Dwight, Bellack, Alan S., Gold, James M.

Deficits in social/communications skills have been documented in schizophrenia, but it is unclear how these deficits relate to cognitive deficits and to everyday functioning. In the current study,...

Performance-Based Measures of Functional Skills: Usefulness in Clinical Treatment Studies (2007)

Harvey, Philip D., Velligan, Dawn I., Bellack, Alan S.

Recently, attention to the assessment and treatment of functional disability has increased notably. It is widely understood that impairments in everyday living skills, including independent living...

Assessment of Community Functioning in People With Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Illnesses: A White Paper Based on an NIMH-Sponsored Workshop (2007)

Bellack, Alan S., Green, Michael F., Cook, Judith A., Fenton, Wayne, Harvey, Philip D., Heaton, Robert K., ...

People with schizophrenia frequently have significant problems in community functioning. Progress in developing effective interventions to ameliorate these problems has been slowed by the absence of...

Scientific and Consumer Models of Recovery in Schizophrenia: Concordance, Contrasts, and Implications (2006)

Bellack, Alan S.

Schizophrenia has traditionally been viewed as a chronic condition with a very pessimistic outlook, but that assumption may not be valid. There has been a growing consumer movement among people with...

Assessment of Community Functioning in People With Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Illnesses: A White Paper Based on an NIMH-Sponsored Workshop (2006)

Bellack, Alan S., Green, Michael F., Cook, Judith A., Fenton, Wayne, Harvey, Philip D., Heaton, Robert K., ...

People with schizophrenia frequently have significant problems in community functioning. Progress in developing effective interventions to ameliorate these problems has been slowed by the absence of...

Social/Communication Skills, Cognition, and Vocational Functioning in Schizophrenia (2006)

Dickinson, Dwight, Bellack, Alan S., Gold, James M.

Deficits in social/communications skills have been documented in schizophrenia, but it is unclear how these deficits relate to cognitive deficits and to everyday functioning. In the current study,...

Scientific and Consumer Models of Recovery in Schizophrenia: Concordance, Contrasts, and Implications (2006)

Bellack, Alan S.

Schizophrenia has traditionally been viewed as a chronic condition with a very pessimistic outlook, but that assumption may not be valid. There has been a growing consumer movement among people with...

A Review of Cognitive Training in Schizophrenia (2003)

Twamley, Elizabeth W., Jeste, Dilip V., Bellack, Alan S.

Empirically supported treatments for schizophrenia now include a variety of psychosocial interventions, such as social skills training, vocational rehabilitation, and psychotherapy. As awareness of...

Interpersonal Control and Expressed Emotion in Families of Persons With Schizophrenia: Change Over Time (2001)

Wuerker, Anne K., Haas, Gretchen L., Bellack, Alan S.

This study examined communication patterns in 62 families of persons with schizophrenia, comparing families with relatives who were low expressed emotion (EE) at the beginning and end of a 2-year...

Cognitive Rehabilitation for Schizophrenia: Problems, Prospects, and Strategies (1999)

Bellack, Alan S., Gold, James M., Buchanan, Robert W.

Increasing awareness of the importance of neurocognitive impairments in schizophrenia has fostered considerable interest in the prospects for cognitive rehabilitation. Nevertheless, optimism has...

Anhedonia, Positive and Negative Affect, and Social Functioning in Schizophrenia (1998)

Blanchard, Jack J., Mueser, Kim T., Bellack, Alan S.

This study examines the relationship between anhedonia and the trait dimensions of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) in schizophrenia. The relationship between poor social functioning in...

Cue Availability and Affect Perception in Schizophrenia (1996)

Bellack, Alan S., Blanchard, Jack J., Mueser, Kim T.

This study examined affect perception in schizophrenia. Subjects were 35 patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, 11 with bipolar disorder, and 19 matched nonpatient controls. All...

Psychosocial Treatment for Schizophrenia (1993)

Bellack, Alan S., Mueser, Kim T.

This article addresses issues affecting the progress of research on the psychological treatment of schizophrenia, including the need for comprehensive and long-term treatment, individual differences...

Cognitive Rehabilitation for Schizophrenia: Is It Possible? Is It Necessary? (1992)

Bellack, Alan S.

Limitations of available psychosocial interventions combined with the increasing evidence that schizophrenia is characterized by diverse deficits in information processing has stimulated great...

Assessment of Enduring Deficit and Negative Symptom Subtypes in Schizophrenia (1991)

Mueser, Kim T., Douglas, Margaret S., Bellack, Alan S., Morrison, Randall L.

The clinical importance of subtypes based on enduring deficit or negative symptoms was examined in a group of schizophrenic patients who were assessed twice over a 1-year period. Subgroups of...

Prevalence of Substance Abuse in Schizophrenia: Demographic and Clinical Correlates (1990)

Mueser, Kim T., Yarnold, Paul R., Levinson, Douglas F., Singh, Hardeep, Bellack, Alan S., Kee, Kimmy, ...

Methodological issues involved in assessing the prevalence of substance abuse in schizophrenia are discussed, and previous research in this area is comprehensively reviewed. Many studies suffer from...

Social Problem Soving in Schizophrenia (1989)

Bellack, Alan S., Morrison, Randall L., Mueser, Kim T.

The recent literature on social skills training has placed an increasing emphasis on the role of cognitive factors in social failure, as opposed to deficits in motoric skills. It has been...

Deficits in Facial-affect Recognition and Schizophrenia (1988)

Morrison, Randall L., Bellack, Alan S., Mueser, Kim T.

It has been widely demonstrated that schizophrenic patients show a broad range of deficits in interpersonal skills. Recently, considerable attention has been focused on the ability of these patients...

Social Functioning of Schizophrenic Patients: Clinical and Research Issues (1987)

Morrison, Randall L., Bellack, Alan S.

Social dysfunction is generally considered an essential feature of schizophrenia. However, despite considerable interest in the social functioning of schizophrenic patients, the precise nature of the...

The Clinical Psychology Handbook (1983)

Hersen, Michel (ed.), Kazdin, Alan E. (ed.), Bellack, Alan S. (ed.)

Antología de psicología clínica, editada con el propósito de mostrar el estado del arte de la teoría, investigación y práctica de dicho campo a inicios de la década de 1980. Seis son los ejes...

The Clinical Psychology Handbook / Ed. y pref. de M. Hersen, A.E. Kazdin, A.S. Bellack. (1983)

Hersen, Michel (ed.), Kazdin, Alan E. (ed.), Bellack, Alan S. (ed.)

Antología de psicología clínica, editada con el propósito de mostrar el estado del arte de la teoría, investigación y práctica de dicho campo a inicios de la década de 1980. Seis son los ejes...

Assessment of Community Functioning in People With Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Illnesses: A White Paper Based on an NIMH-Sponsored Workshop

Bellack, Alan S., Green, Michael F., Cook, Judith A., Fenton, Wayne, Harvey, Philip D., Heaton, Robert K., ...

People with schizophrenia frequently have significant problems in community functioning. Progress in developing effective interventions to ameliorate these problems has been slowed by the absence of...

Scientific and Consumer Models of Recovery in Schizophrenia: Concordance, Contrasts, and Implications

Bellack, Alan S.

Schizophrenia has traditionally been viewed as a chronic condition with a very pessimistic outlook, but that assumption may not be valid. There has been a growing consumer movement among people with...

Social/Communication Skills, Cognition, and Vocational Functioning in Schizophrenia

Dickinson, Dwight, Bellack, Alan S., Gold, James M.

Deficits in social/communications skills have been documented in schizophrenia, but it is unclear how these deficits relate to cognitive deficits and to everyday functioning. In the current study,...

Performance-Based Measures of Functional Skills: Usefulness in Clinical Treatment Studies

Harvey, Philip D., Velligan, Dawn I., Bellack, Alan S.

Recently, attention to the assessment and treatment of functional disability has increased notably. It is widely understood that impairments in everyday living skills, including independent living...