Early Detection and Intervention in Schizophrenia: Research

Early detection and intervention with schizophrenia: rationale.

This article explores the rationale for early detection and intervention in schizophrenia. The most compelling reason is the disorder's severity and chronicity and our knowledge that, while many treatments for schizophrenia are effective, they are also limited and palliative. This state of affairs suggests that researchers pay closer attention to schizophrenia's premorbid and onset phases, when...

Early Intervention in Schizophrenia

Early intervention in schizophrenia.

The management of schizophrenia may be characterised by two paradigms. The first approaches the schizophrenias as episodic relapsing disorders, where treatment is provided through both acute (crisis) care and to achieve prophylaxis. The second paradigm, sometimes arising from a failure of the first, is of "rehabilitation", involving amelioration of disabilities, occasionally within a framework ...

Early and sustained dynamic intervention in schizophrenia.

This paper is based on the Danish National Schizophrenia Project manual for psychodynamic individual psychotherapy with persons in states of schizophrenia. The methods for engaging with and treating a patient with schizophrenia in a supportive, psychodynamic way are described.

Early Intervention Programs For Schizophrenia