Prolonged recovery early psychosis treatment manual

Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 www. Orygen currently only operate clinical services in the north and north west of Melbourne through our headspace centres. If you need to access a clinical service and you live in another part of Australia, you can access a range of services through the headspace centres operating around Australia. Visit www. You can visit www. Look inside Image 2 Image 3. Search for:. Do you need help now? The finding of an effect of prolonged treatment for participants with a short total treatment delay could mean that prolonged SEI treatment is more beneficial than treatment as usual TAU so long as it is provided in the early years of illness and not just in the early years after diagnosis.

Nikolai Albert, at the Copenhagen Mental Health Centre, and a team of Danish researchers have investigated the effects of a specialized early intervention program OPUS in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and compared the effects of OPUS after two and five years. Their findings suggest that five years of specialized early intervention was most beneficial when the total duration from symptom start to treatment was shorter than 6 months.

The treatment was particularly effective at improving patients' disorganized behavior and negative symptoms such as blunted emotions and lack of motivation. These findings support previous studies suggesting that patients are more responsive to treatment in the early years of illness and highlight the importance of avoiding delays within the mental health service provision. Abstract The duration of untreated psychosis DUP has been shown to have an effect on outcome after first-episode psychosis.