Abstract
Treatment of adults with serious mental illness is hampered by the difficulty of trying to undo the ravages that years of mental illness cause. Over the past several decades, first-episode psychosis (FEP) treatment has been developed and implemented widely throughout the country. This chapter will describe the scientific foundations of early treatment for psychosis including a description of the evidence indicating that longer duration of untreated psychosis is a strong predictor of worse short-term and long-term outcomes. The chapter will also cover the evidence supporting the effectiveness of specialized early treatment focused on recovery as well as the scientific and policy factors that led to the unusually rapid dissemination of FEP treatment throughout the country.
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Bello, I., Nossel, I., Dixon, L.B. (2022). Early Psychosis and the Prevention and Mitigation of Serious Mental Illness. In: Sowers, W.E., McQuistion, H.L., Ranz, J.M., Feldman, J.M., Runnels, P.S. (eds) Textbook of Community Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10239-4_43
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