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First‐episode psychosis: Early treatment is effective
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30310
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychosis , psychiatry , specialty , psychology , mythology , mental health , mental health care , early psychosis , psychotherapist , medicine , history , classics
It's a myth that someone with psychotic symptoms is dangerous, and it's also wrong to think the diagnosis means your child is doomed — far from it. The RAISE (Recovery After Initial Schizophrenia Episode) initiative by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) shows that with coordinated specialty care, treatment, including medications, is effective.