Early Intervention in Psychotic Disorders

by Miller, Tandy; Mednick, Sarnoff A.; McGlashan, Thomas H.; Libiger, Jan; Johannessen, Jan Olav

• ISBN13: 9780792367505
• ISBN10: 0792367502
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The papers presented here, written by experts from all parts of the globe, describe efforts that represent a revolutionary moment in the treatment of schizophrenia disorders as, with caution, we begin to shift the standard of treatment toward early intervention and prevention. Contributions are organised according to the early course of psychosis. The book is of critical importance to anyone interested in psychotic disorders and the revolutionary impact that the field of early detection and intervention is having on traditional conceptualisations of psychotic illness.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Risk and Projective Factors in the Premorbid Phase of Psychosis

Predicting Schizophrenia from Teachers' Reports of Behaviour: Results from a General Population Birth Cohort

Premorbid Interventions, Identification of Those at Risk

Phenomenology, Epidemiology, and Course in the Prodromal Phase of Psychosis

Epidemiology of Prodrome in Familial Schizophrenia

Description of the DEEP Project

The Prodromal Phase of Psychosis

Early Intervention in the Prodromal Phase of Psychosis

Recognition and Treatment of the Pre-Psychotic Phase of Psychotic Disorders: Frontier or Fantasy?

Early Detection and Intervention through Integration with Primary Health Services: The Buckingham Project

A Scale for the Assessment of Prodromal Symptoms and States

Early Intervention in the Onset Phase of Psychosis

The TIPS Project: A Systematized Program to Reduce Duration of Untreated Psychosis in First-episode Schizophrenia

Pharmacotherapy of First-episode Psychosis

Treatment in the Early Stages of Psychosis

Family-based Treatment in Prodromal and First-episode Psychosis

Neurobiology of Vulnerability and Deterioration in the Early Course of Psychosis

Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia: Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative Processes

List of Participants/Lecturers

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