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Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Early Onset Schizophrenia at School

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The exact nature of the etiological process of schizophrenia still remains elusive. Contemporary scholarship suggests that multiple factors contribute to the development of schizophrenia, including: (a) genes that cause structural brain deviations which make some individuals vulnerable to schizophrenia and (b) environmental factors such as negative prenatal and postnatal impacts and social stresses such as trauma and stigma. Furthermore, there may be an interaction or interplay between genetic vulnerability, neurobiological, and environmental factors that put a child or adolescent at the risk of developing schizophrenia.

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  1. Department of Public Psychiatry, Commonwealth Research Center Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Huijun Li

  2. Department of Counseling and School Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Wheatley Hall 2-169, Boston, MA, USA

    Melissa Pearrow

  3. Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

    Shane R. Jimerson

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Li, H., Pearrow, M., Jimerson, S.R. (2010). Causes. 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_2

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