Penurunan simptom delusi pada penderita skizofrenia paranoid melalui pelatihan metakognitif

WIDILAKSMI, Menur, Drs. Subandi, MA., Ph.D., Psi

2009 | Tesis | S2 Magister Profesi Psikologi

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that is characterized by a disturbance in thinking, perception, emotion, behavior, and communication. Disturbances in thinking can lead to false beliefs that cause the emergence of delusions . Delusions is quite prominent experienced by individual with paranoid schizophrenia disorder. Delusions associated with the inability to integrate the existing perception with previous knowledge stored in memory. Cognitive approach involved metacognition that can overcome the problem of thinking disturbance in schizophrenia disorder. Matacognition refers to people cognition about cognitive phenomena. The idea is that some cognitive states and processess. Metacognition is knowledge that concern with one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them. This study used small N experiment with AB design. The data in this study were analyzed by using visual inspection supported by qualitative description. The results showed that metacognitive training can reduce the symptoms of delusions and enhance partisipant’s metacognitive skills.

Kata Kunci : Delusion,Metacognitive,Paranoid schizopheria