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Early Onset Schizophrenia (EOS, onset of symptoms prior to age 18 years) is the diagnostic classification identifying children and adolescents experiencing delusions (having beliefs not based on reality), hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that do not exist), disorganized or incoherent speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior or negative symptoms such as lack of emotion (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000). It has been estimated that about one in 10,000 children will develop some form of schizophrenic disorder, with childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS, onset prior to age 12 years) occurring in roughly one in 40,000 children (Asarnow & Asarnow, 2003; Nicolson & Rapoport, 1999; Remschmidt, 2002). Mueser and McGurk (2004) report a lifetime prevalence of Schizophrenia to be one in 100, and it is estimated that 2.5 million people in the United States are living with the disorder. The symptomology required for diagnosis is considered to be the same as for adults. Most frequently, the age of onset of schizophrenia is between 16 and 35 years old (Asarnow, Thompson, & McGrath, 2004).
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Li, H., Pearrow, M., Jimerson, S.R. (2010). Introduction. In: Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Early Onset Schizophrenia at School. Developmental Psychopathology at School. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6272-0_1
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