Early detection in psychosis report
Report on Early detection and intervention for young people at risk of psychosis
Report compiled by Sophie Parker, Paul French, Aoiffe Kilcommons & David Shiers
Implementation Guide by Sophie Parker and Paul French
Download this Report (PDF, 526 KB)
Contents
1. Executive summary
2. Introduction
3. Everybody’s business
4. Rationale for intervening earlier
5. A specialist service model
6. Summary
7. Acknowledgements
8. Appendix - Service implementation guide
9. References
The drive to detect and intervene earlier in the care pathway of an individual with an emerging psychosis is supported by increasingly robust evidence. It is timely, in the light of this evidence and the rapidly changing configuration of mental health services specialising in early intervention, to consider how the key players in the early part of the pathway work together.
This report will explore some of the development challenges for specialist services, illustrating how this emerging evidence base can be translated into the real world by providing examples of good practice in specialist services. In particular we examine how the primary care / specialist interface needs to change if we are to realise the potential benefits of the research evidence.
General Practitioners are critical pathway players in the interface with specialist services. Working with experts from the Royal College of General Practice, the Royal College of Psychiatry and the British Psychological Society we have created a specific guidance for general practitioners.
Finally supporting the report we have prepared a set of Factsheets which summarise some of the main themes.
