Early Intervention For Psychotic Disorders In A Community Mental Health Center
Key Messages
Early intervention (EI) programs may improve outcomes for patients with psychotic disorders.
A collaborative pilot study by the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) and the Yale Department of Psychiatry, using a pragmatic, randomized, controlled design and a real-world approach, evaluated an EI service for patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP).
While outcomes data are reported separately (see summary titled “Reducing the duration of untreated psychosis and its impact in the U.S.: the STEP-ED study”), the authors of this article concluded that there …
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