Meanings of early psychosis in English

Background: Young people with early psychosis are at particularly high risk of suicide.

Within the early psychosis group, both violent and non-violent traumas predicted elevated grandiosity.

Aim: Identity-related concerns represent an important aspect of young people's experience in early psychosis.

Twenty well-established assessments relating to the prodromal stage, early psychosis, and psychosis were identified.

However, there is currently little published data testing its effectiveness for reducing cannabis use in early psychosis.

Conclusions: Findings indicate a need for early psychosis programs to invest in identity- related training for clinicians.

Although several clinical strategies were identified, specific evidence-based approaches for strengthening identity in early psychosis remain lacking.

Thus, the present study was developed to understand Canadian clinicians' perspectives on personal identity-related concerns in early psychosis.

The link between these neurobiological findings and the complex phenomenology of the early psychosis period is not well understood.

Better treatment for early psychosis.

Methods: An online survey was distributed to 331 multiprofessional clinicians working in early psychosis intervention programs in a Canadian province.

Clinicians were asked about their opinions regarding the salience of identity in early psychosis using Likert-rated items and open response questions.

A panel of experts assembled and analyzed a comprehensive item bank from which a highly sensitive and specific early psychosis screener could be developed.

Method: Mortality outcomes in 723 young people presenting to an early psychosis service were prospectively ascertained up to 20 years.

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a psychosocial treatment designed to prevent the second episode of psychosis compared with standardized early psychosis care.

EPPIC is a frontline public mental health early psychosis program, servicing a geographically defined catchment area with a population of about 800,000 people.