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Managing Psychotic Illness in Young People: A Practical Overview
Author(s) -
Tiffin Paul A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2006.00418.x
Subject(s) - schizoaffective disorder , psychosocial , psychiatry , psychological intervention , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychosis , bipolar disorder , psychology , schizophrenia spectrum , mental health , mental illness , medicine , clinical psychology , cognition
Background: The management of early onset psychosis poses a significant challenge to professionals working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Young people with psychotic illness often present with a mixed clinical picture and a wide variety of attendant issues. Over the last decade there has been accumulating research, mainly based on work with adults, regarding the efficacy and effectiveness of medical and psychosocial interventions for patients with schizoaffective spectrum disorders. This article takes a symptoms‐based approach, collating and summarising recent evidence, where it exists, regarding best practice when managing young people affected by schizophrenia, schizoaffective or bipolar affective disorder.