Volume 38 · Number 8
AUGUST 2008
The Promise of Early Recognition and Treatment
By Jan Fawcett, MD
This issue of Psychiatric Annals features a series of articles on Early Intervention of Psychotic Disorders, guest edited by Michael T. Compton, MD, MPH. This series, with articles from Norway, Australia, Canada, and the United States, is one of the most progressive and optimistic series of articles pertaining to schizophrenia that I have seen. This series makes a case for early recognition and treatment of high-risk youth as a method for early case finding of people with prodromal or at-risk symptoms for psychosis in order to increase the rate of social recovery and to increase functional outcomes.
Early Intervention for Psychotic Disorders
Michael T. Compton, MD, MPH
Treatment Delay in the Early Course of Schizophrenia and the Duration of Untreated Psychosis
Michael T. Compton, MD, MPH;
Sandra M. Goulding, MPH;
Beth Broussard, MPH, CHES;
Hanan Trotman, MA
Information Campaigns: 10 Years of Experience in the Early Treatment and Intervention in Psychosis (TIPS) Study
Inge Joa, RN;
Jan Olav Johannessen, MD;
Tor K. Larsen, MD;
Thomas H. McGlashan, MD
Interventions in the Early Stages of Psychosis
Eóin Killackey, DPsych;
Patrick D. McGorry, MD
Expanding the Boundaries of Early Intervention for Psychosis: Intervening During the Prodrome
Andrea M. Auther, PhD;
Dodie A. Gillett, PhD;
Barbara A. Cornblatt, MBA, PhD
Translating Best Practices into Service: Implementing Early Intervention for Psychosis across Canada
Suzanne Archie, MD, FRCP(C);
Heather Hobbs, RN, BScN, CBSDipl;
Natasja Menezes, MDCM, MSc, FRCP(C)
Early Intervention for Psychotic Disorders: A Resident’s Perspective
Chantelle Simmons, MD
