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Early intervention in psychosis is a clinical approach to those experiencing symptoms of psychosis for the first time. It forms part of a new prevention paradigm for psychiatry [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and is leading to reform of mental health services , [ 3 ] especially in the United Kingdom [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and Australia.
The International Early Intervention and Prevention in Mental Health Association (IEPA), is a professional body and international network for those with an interest in early intervention in mental health and early psychosis intervention. The organisations headquarters are located in Parkville, a suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. [1]
In 2013 the UK NGO Mental Health Foundation and partners began to use Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) in an early years intervention to reduce later life mental illness. [71] [72] In 2013 in Australia the National Health and Medical Research Council supported a set of parenting strategies to prevent teenagers becoming anxious or depressed. [73 ...
Early intervention in psychosis is based on the observation that identifying and treating someone in the early stages of a psychosis can improve their longer term outcome. [148] This approach advocates the use of an intensive multi-disciplinary approach during what is known as the critical period , where intervention is the most effective, and ...
Additional studies have been proposed to improve early psychosis interventions, utilizing the CSC model as the standard. The EPI-CAL program, led by investigators from the University of California, Davis, is an example of a study that hopes to expand early psychosis intervention throughout California, and increase consistency in training and ...
McGorry and his colleagues developed an approach for young people who have symptoms of psychosis for the first time, based at the EPPIC clinic in Melbourne. [6] This EPPIC clinic has played a key part in an early psychosis treatment paradigm for psychiatry [7] [8] [9] and has led to significant reform of mental health services, [10] especially in the United Kingdom. [11]
Staff within a trauma-informed early intervention psychosis service are trained to understand the link between trauma and psychosis and will be knowledgeable about trauma and its effects. A trauma-informed early intervention psychosis service will: Seek agreement and consent from the service user before beginning any intervention;
It is more effective where symptoms of catatonia are present, [170] and is recommended for use under NICE guidelines in the UK for catatonia if previously effective, though there is no recommendation for use for schizophrenia otherwise. [171] Psychosurgery has now become a rare procedure and is not a recommended treatment for schizophrenia. [172]