It is widely accepted that patients with schizophrenia show disturbances in their cognitive function.
Recently, due to the increase of the possibilities of therapeutic intervention for cognitive deficits, cognitive
rehabilitation is being tried by clinicians in the management of schizophrenia.
Our study has considered several questions that have been raised in relation to cognitive rehabilitation.
1) What is cognitive rehabilitation?;2) What are its strategies?;3) What strategy of cognitive
rehabilitation is appropriate to several cognitive deficits?;4) What kind of cognitive rehabilitation
methods are possible according to the information processing model for schizophrenia?;5) What is
its clinical considerations?;6) On what theoretical basis does the critical view of cognitive rehabilitation
have its roots?;7) Which direction should it follow?
Despite its limitation, there are still great possibilities for the future of cognitive rehabilitation, and
we feel that it should be tried for patients with schizophrenia in this country