Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis
An Integrated Approach to Early Intervention
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Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis
An Integrated Approach to Early Intervention
About This Book
Despite years of research, debate and changes in mental health policy, there is still a lack of consensus as to what recovery from psychosis actually means, how it should be measured and how it may ultimately be achieved. In Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis: An Integrated Approach to Early Intervention, it is argued that recovery from a first episode of psychosis (FEP) is comprised ofthree core elements: symptomatic, social and personal. Moreover, allthree types of recovery need to be the target of early intervention for psychosis programmes (EIP) which provide evidence-based, integrated, bio-psychosocial interventions delivered in the context of a value base offering hope, empowerment and a youth-focused approach.Over the 12 chapters in the book, the authors, all experienced clinicians and researchers from multi-professional backgrounds, demonstrate that long-term recovery needs to replace short term remission as the key target of early psychosis services and that, to achieve this, we need a change in the way we deliver EIP: one that takes account of the different stages of psychosis and the 'bespoke' targeting of integrated medical, psychological and social treatments during the 'critical period'. Illustrated with a wealth of clinical examples, this bookwill be of great interest to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and other associated mental health professionals.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword: From psychosis to politics
- Foreword: A carerâs experience xviii
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The first episode of psychosis and how EIP services have evolved to optimise adaptation and recovery
- 2 Adapting, adjusting and recovering from a first episode of psychosis: the need for integration
- 3 Biological and medical approaches to symptomatic recovery and adaptation
- 4 Psychosocial approaches to symptomatic recovery and adaptation
- 5 Social recovery in first episode psychosis
- 6 Treatment approaches to social recovery in first episode psychosis
- 7 Optimising personal recovery and promoting psychological adaptation following first episode psychosis
- 8 When psychological adaptation and recovery go wrong
- 9 Identifying and managing suicidality following a first episode of psychosis
- 10 Working with comorbidity and diagnostic uncertainty
- 11 Family adaptation and recovery following FEP
- 12 Integrating and operationalising symptomatic, social and personal recovery: managing EIP and pathways of care
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Positive Cardiometabolic Health Resource
- Appendix 2: Assessment measures for recovery following FEP
- References
- Index