Brief Interventions for Psychosis A Clinical Compendium
This book offers a clinical guide that brings together a broad range of brief interventions and their applications in treating psychosis. It describes two core approaches that can narrow the current, substantial gap between the need for psychotherapeutic
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Brief Interventions for Psychosis
Basant Pradhan • Narsimha Pinninti Shanaya Rathod Editors
Brief Interventions for Psychosis A Clinical Compendium
Editors Basant Pradhan Cooper University Hospital Department of Psychiatry Camden New Jersey USA
Shanaya Rathod Antelope House Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Southampton UK
Narsimha Pinninti Rowan University SOM Department of Psychiatry Cherry Hill New Jersey USA
ISBN 978-3-319-30519-6 ISBN 978-3-319-30521-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30521-9
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Foreword
Treatment of psychotic disorders is undergoing significant change with more importance and focus being given to psychosocial interventions. In this context, the authors of this book, Brief Interventions for Psychosis: A Clinical Compendium, present information that is important, timely and fills a wide knowledge gap. Addressing this knowledge gap is critical in helping us update the existing systems of care because many health service systems are currently not set up to provide comprehensive and integrated clinical care to persons with psychotic disorders. Fortunately, more recently many societies are attempting to provide earlier, comprehensive and more effective interventions as the best hope for improving outcomes in psychotic illnesses. Clinical care of persons developing a psychotic disorder can be very effective with early detection, but the duration of untreated psychosis is still measured in years for most cases. There are sev
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