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Attenuated Psychosis Syndromes Among Australian Youth and Young Adults: Early Identification and Intervention

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Australia, particularly the Melbourne group, has been a pioneer in developing and implementing the early intervention for psychosis model, with an initial focus on first episode psychosis that quickly expanded to include the high-risk or “prodromal” period. In this chapter, we summarize and review this history and outline future directions for early psychosis services in the local and international context. Early interventions for psychosis services have been rolled out nationally across Australia but require strengthening and expansion in scope and reach. Over the last 10 years, the early intervention for psychosis approach has been broadened to include youth mental health more broadly, and new specially designed clinical service structures have been developed and established in the form of the “headspace” platform. A transdiagnostic, pluripotent risk state has been identified through our work in psychosis risk, conceptually supported by the clinical staging model. This has led to the development of broader “at risk” criteria, which are currently being validated in a prospective follow-up study.

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Nelson, B., McGorry, P.D. (2019). Attenuated Psychosis Syndromes Among Australian Youth and Young Adults: Early Identification and Intervention. In: Li, H., Shapiro, D.I., Seidman, L.J. (eds) Handbook of Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome Across Cultures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17336-4_4

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