Individualized Metacognitive Therapy for Psychosis (MCT+)
Individualized metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT+) is designed to deepen and adapt the learning objectives of group MCT for individual clients. Click on the appropriate language below for further information and links to the treatment materials. If you are not familiar with group MCT, please visit our page on metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT) first. We have recently developed the second edition of the MCT+ manual; however, it is not yet available in all languages. The manual can be obtained here. We will update this webpage as other translations of the manual become available.
Meta-analyses support the efficacy of MCT and MCT+ in reducing delusions (Liu et al., 2018; meta-review of meta-analyses: Meinhart et al., 2025).
Please Support Our Work
We are pleased to provide the MCT materials—such as manuals, slides, and worksheets—free of charge. However, to help us continue and expand this work, we kindly ask for your support. We suggest a donation of $35/35€ for individuals or $100/100€ for institutions. Click here to donate.
Your generosity enables us to regularly update and expand the MCT materials, conduct rigorous scientific evaluations, and translate the program into additional languages—allowing more people worldwide to access effective, low-threshold support.
You can donate online via this link. For details on how contributions are used, please see here. We are happy to provide an official donation receipt upon request.
Please note that we have also developed certified e-trainings for MCT for psychosis (www.uke.de/e-mct) and D-MCT for depression (www.uke.de/e-dmct) for therapists. For an e-learning on body-focused repetitive behaviors, see www.uke.de/e-bfrb-training.
 English 2.3 |
 Czech 2.3 |
 Dutch 2.3 |
 Farsi 2.3 |
 French 2.3 |
 German 2.0 |
 Greek 2.3 |
 Icelandic 2.3 |
 Italian 2.3 |
 Japanese 2.3 |
 Polish 2.3 |
 Russian 2.3 |
 Spanish 2.3 |
 Swedish 2.3 |
Please also note that we have developed e-learning programmes for the MCT and D-MCT: www.uke.de/e-mct | www.uke.de/e-dmct
Recent meta-analysis: Liu, Y. C., Tang, C. C., Hung, T. T., Tsai, P. C., & Lin M. F. (2018). The efficacy of Metacognitive Training for delusions in patients with schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials informs evidence-based practice. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 15,130–139.
Meinhart, A., Sauvé, G., Schmueser, A., Penney, D., Berna, F., Gawęda, Ł., Lamarca, M., Moritz, S., Ochoa, S., König, C., Acuña, V., & Fischer, R. (2025). Metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT): a systematic meta-review of its effectiveness. Translational Psychiatry, 15(1), 156. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-025-03344-0