“…Consistent with cognitive models of psychosis (Freeman et al, 2002;Garety, Bebbington, Fowler, Freeman, & Kuipers, 2007;Morrison, 2001), low self-esteem and negative self-beliefs have been found to be associated with symptomrelated distress in UHR participants (Taylor et al, 2014;Xu et al, 2016), emphasizing its role as an important treatment target. In other settings, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been found to be successful in improving self-esteem (Fennell, 2005;Kolubinski, Frings, Nikcevic, Lawrence, & Spada, 2018), a finding which has been replicated in psychosis populations (Freeman et al, 2014;Gumley et al, 2006;Sönmez et al, 2014). Moreover, in a sample of individuals with first-episode psychosis, self-esteem and psychotic symptoms were found to influence one another during therapy (Lecomte, Leclerc, & Wykes, 2018), implying that improvements in self-esteem may lead to a reduction in symptoms.…”