Aaron T. Beck, founder of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and colleagues have developed and investigated a new CBT approach, in which they target inactivity in a chronic schizophrenia population with severe negative symptoms; a subgroup that has always believed to be highly treatment resistant. The therapy is based on accumulating evidence that dysfunctional beliefs in conjunction with neurocognitive impairments can impede functioning. Its primary focus is to help patients overcome isolation and inactivity, thereby improve quality of life, rather than primarily focussing on the reduction of psychotic symptoms. Grant, Beck and colleagues found that patients treated with CBT not only showed more improvement in global functioning than patients in the Standard Treatment condition, they also showed a greater reduction in avolition/apathy and psychotic symptoms. These results suggest that CBT can be highly successful in establishing clinically meaningful improvements.