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Hi, need to submit a 1500 words paper on the topic Early Intervention for Psychosis.
Hi, need to submit a 1500 words paper on the topic Early Intervention for Psychosis. “People suffering from schizophrenia and other psychoses fall within the serious mental illness rubric, and not only have a profile of severe morbidity and mortality but have been traditionally neglected when it came to the quality of their psychiatric care”. Psychosis is a serious mental illness typically begins at a young age of adolescence or in the very early stages of adult life. The pervasive nature of the mental disturbance in psychosis, places a high-risk potential to the normal life span of the individual, as also the quality of life of the individual during the course of the illness.
The early course of the disease sees relapsing illness occurring for several years, with crisis events carrying a significant risk for suicide. In most individuals, the relapses and the intensity of the crisis events reduce over time, with maturing of the individual and reduction invulnerability of the individual. This amelioration in the vulnerability of the individual, however, is influenced by the level of irreversible damage occurring during the height of the illness in the individual. These factors make an early and efficient intervention in psychosis integral to better outcomes for these patients. In the developed world including Australia, the enhanced competition for scarce mental health resources leaves gaps in the intervention strategies and the quality of care for patients experiencing psychosis.
Early intervention for schizophrenia has become the treatment approach h in the management of schizophrenia in the developed world of Europe, America and Australia. There are two essential components to early intervention in schizophrenia, which are detection at an early stage and treatment that is phase-specific. The components are used to augment standard care or as applied to the patient using a specialist early intervention team. The authors conducted a review into seven studies conducted in different parts of the world to evaluate the efficiency of early detection, phase-specific treatments and the use of specialist early .intervention teams in the treatment of patients with first-episode psychosis.
