"Adolescents At Risk Of Developing Psychosis Benefit From Early And Network-Oriented Care (Forensics Talk)

May 18, 2009

"Adolescents At Risk Of Developing Psychosis Benefit From Early And Network-Oriented Care

Article Date: 15 May 2009 - 3:00 PDT

"Family and network oriented, stress-reducing care improves level of overall functioning and mental health in adolescents at risk of developing psychosis, suggests a recent Finnish study.

Jorvi Early psychosis Recognition and Intervention (JERI) project at Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH), Jorvi Hospital, Finland, is a project with an early intervention team for adolescents at risk of developing first-episode psychosis. As developing psychosis has been suggested to be a result of a combination of acute life stressors and trait-like vulnerability to psychosis, the intervention is based on the idea of multiprofessional, need-adapted, community-, family- and network-oriented, stress-reducing, overall functioning supporting and low-threshold care. . ." Read More

May 18, 2009 5:48:16 AM | Forensic Psychology

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