Prevention & Recovery In Early Psychosis (PREP®): Building A Public-Academic Partnership Program In Massachusetts, United States
Key Messages
The shift in mental health care toward early intervention (EI) has led to nation-wide reform in some countries, and several individual EI programs associated with university research groups have evolved in the United States (US).
The authors reviewed the history and features of one such program, the Massachusetts-based Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis (PREP) program, which provides outpatient support to patients and their families after early psychosis episodes.
The PREP program focuses on early, evidence-based, person-centered and phase-specific, integrated and …