Schizophrenia is a severe chronic disabling disease. Medication alone is often insufficient to effectively reduce the high recurrence rate or mitigate the significant functional impairment. Multiple family therapy (MFT) has been shown to lower recurrence rate and improve patients' social functioning. This article provides a brief review and discussion of research on the role of MFT in schizophrenia treatment, aiming to offer more evidence-based support for patient rehabilitation.

Schizophrenia is a severe chronic disabling disease. Medication alone is often insufficient to effectively reduce the high recurrence rate or mitigate the significant functional impairment. Multiple family therapy (MFT) has been shown to lower recurrence rate and improve patients' social functioning. This article provides a brief review and discussion of research on the role of MFT in schizophrenia treatment, aiming to offer more evidence-based support for patient rehabilitation.

This article presents three detailed case reports of refractory schizophrenia with varying degrees of improvement in psychiatric symptoms,cognitive function,and insight after 16 sessions of group metacognitive training(MCT)across an 8-week period,and aims to explore the curative effect of group MCT in patients with refractory schizophrenia,thus to provide references for improving symptoms in refractory schizophrenia.

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