Metacognition and inner speech in individual with psychosis: a scoping review

Psychosis can be defined as individual’s experience of hallucination or delusions or both. It is regarded as one of the most challenging psychological illnesses to handle within the clinical walls. As of now, three main lines of treatment interventions (i.e. pharmacological treatment, cognitive...

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Main Authors: Mohamad Danial Azizi Haji Mahadi, Gan Chun Hong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2025
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description Psychosis can be defined as individual’s experience of hallucination or delusions or both. It is regarded as one of the most challenging psychological illnesses to handle within the clinical walls. As of now, three main lines of treatment interventions (i.e. pharmacological treatment, cognitive behavioural therapy, and social cognitive Training) were deemed as having mixed findings or having questionable efficacy. This led to researchers in trying to find other means of psychological constructs to be incorporated into therapeutic interventions for people with Psychosis. Two of the proposed constructs were Metacognition (i.e. thinking about thinking) and Inner Speech (i.e. the internal experience of auditory language without the need to use covert language). This scoping review attempts to provide an overview on the extent of research that has been done relating to these three concepts (i.e. Metacognition, Inner Speech and Psychosis). Furthermore, this scoping review also attempts to identify any gaps in the literature that could aid and inform the direction of future research within this area of interest. The scoping review was done according to five-stage framework introduced by Arksey and O’Malley (2005). Results showed there seemed to be several theories being proposed from both field of Metacognition and Inner Speech in trying to explain Psychosis. However, these theories were not only contradictory to one another but also only rely on philosophical and psychological theories as there were no further scientific research done in trying to back up its claim. Further discussion and implication were presented in this article.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:258902025-09-25T02:33:38Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25890/ Metacognition and inner speech in individual with psychosis: a scoping review Mohamad Danial Azizi Haji Mahadi, Gan Chun Hong, Psychosis can be defined as individual’s experience of hallucination or delusions or both. It is regarded as one of the most challenging psychological illnesses to handle within the clinical walls. As of now, three main lines of treatment interventions (i.e. pharmacological treatment, cognitive behavioural therapy, and social cognitive Training) were deemed as having mixed findings or having questionable efficacy. This led to researchers in trying to find other means of psychological constructs to be incorporated into therapeutic interventions for people with Psychosis. Two of the proposed constructs were Metacognition (i.e. thinking about thinking) and Inner Speech (i.e. the internal experience of auditory language without the need to use covert language). This scoping review attempts to provide an overview on the extent of research that has been done relating to these three concepts (i.e. Metacognition, Inner Speech and Psychosis). Furthermore, this scoping review also attempts to identify any gaps in the literature that could aid and inform the direction of future research within this area of interest. The scoping review was done according to five-stage framework introduced by Arksey and O’Malley (2005). Results showed there seemed to be several theories being proposed from both field of Metacognition and Inner Speech in trying to explain Psychosis. However, these theories were not only contradictory to one another but also only rely on philosophical and psychological theories as there were no further scientific research done in trying to back up its claim. Further discussion and implication were presented in this article. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2025 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25890/1/Sains_Kesihatan_23_1_5.pdf Mohamad Danial Azizi Haji Mahadi, and Gan Chun Hong, (2025) Metacognition and inner speech in individual with psychosis: a scoping review. Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia, 23 (1). pp. 55-68. ISSN 1675-8161 https://ejournals.ukm.my/jskm/issue/view/1728
spellingShingle Mohamad Danial Azizi Haji Mahadi,
Gan Chun Hong,
Metacognition and inner speech in individual with psychosis: a scoping review
title Metacognition and inner speech in individual with psychosis: a scoping review
title_full Metacognition and inner speech in individual with psychosis: a scoping review
title_fullStr Metacognition and inner speech in individual with psychosis: a scoping review
title_full_unstemmed Metacognition and inner speech in individual with psychosis: a scoping review
title_short Metacognition and inner speech in individual with psychosis: a scoping review
title_sort metacognition and inner speech in individual with psychosis: a scoping review
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25890/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25890/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/25890/1/Sains_Kesihatan_23_1_5.pdf