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Programs seek to shorten duration of untreated first‐episode illness
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30088
Subject(s) - duration (music) , government (linguistics) , psychiatry , mental health , mental illness , set (abstract data type) , psychosis , psychology , medicine , computer science , art , linguistics , philosophy , literature , programming language
The days, months and sometimes years that often elapse between a young person's first episode of psychosis and full engagement with mental health services can set the stage for a lifetime of struggle and unfulfilled potential. Reducing that duration has become a priority in the federal government and in a number of states.