Background Birth of a premature infant and hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a stressful phenomenon and lead to parents’ anxiety. In such situation, fathers have important role to reduce mothers’ anxiety. This study aimed to investigate the effect of family-centered intervention in the NICU on the anxiety of parents. Materials and Methods In this clinical trial, 60 ...

BACKGROUND Proponents of early intervention have argued that outcome might be improved if more therapeutic effort were focused on the early stages of schizophrenia. Early intervention in schizophrenia has two elements that are distinct from standard care: early detection and phase-specific treatment. Both elements may be offered in addition to standard care, or may be provided by a specialised ...

We now know that professionals can diagnose children with autism when they are as young as 2 years of age (Lord, 1995). Screening and the role of the pediatrician have become even more critical as we have recognized the stability of early diagnosis over time and the importance of early intervention. At this point, experts working with children with autism agree that early intervention is critic...

Early intervention in psychosis services produce better clinical outcomes than generic teams and are also cost-effective. Clinical gains made within such services are robust as long as the interventions are actively provided. Longer-term data show that some of these gains are lost when care is transferred back to generic teams. This paper argues that sustaining these early gains requires both a...

2010 This briefing is intended to inform service planners about the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service model, which has spearheaded a revolution in how mental health services have been delivered across England over the last ten years. The EIP service model can address many of the efficiency challenges facing service planners currently, supported by a robust evidence base of clinical ...

This essay describes the setting up of early intervention services in Vietnam. From the outset, there was a focus on developing staff training programmes alongside establishing model early intervention programmes to ensure that the work would be sustained at the end of the project funding and spread throughout the country. The success of this work has now led to the government of Vietnam wantin...