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First Episode and Early Psychosis Assessment
First Episode and Early Psychosis Assessment
Headspace Early Psychosis Program
Headspace Early Psychosis Program
The headspace Early Psychosis program supports young people in every aspect of their recovery, including best practice treatment, education and employment support and managing relationships. This program offers free and confidential support for young people who are experiencing an early episode of psychosis or are at risk of developing psychosis. As part of the program, young people can access:
- Specialty trained mental health professionals
- Support to help them get back to study or work
- Support with everyday life skills, e.g. shopping, travelling
- Creative therapy e.g. art or music groups
- Social group activities (e.g. cooking, going to the movies) with other young people who have had similar experiences.
- Early Psychosis Referral Checklist
Headspace Early Psychosis not only provides specialist clinical case managers but also a range of peer support and family workers who’ll work with young people and their families to achieve their goals.Young people work with a specialist case manager who develops an individual treatment plan and provides support throughout the treatment. Mobile Assessment Treatment teams also provide assessment, community outreach and support after hours. These specialists undertake initial assessments and treatment for young people and their family. As part of the headspace Early Psychosis program, families receive support, information and education about psychosis. They can attend family meetings and group sessions to get support from other families with a young person experiencing psychosis. Parents and families can also access a qualified youth mental health professional in a confidential, free and secure manner through their centre or after hours, through eheadspace. 14 headspace Centres deliver headspace Early Psychosis:
- Adelaide
- Bentleigh
- Dandenong
- Frankston
- Narre Warren
- Darwin
- Mount Druitt
- Parramatta
- Penrith
- Joonadalup
- Midland
- Osborne Park
- Meadowbrook
- Southport
Organisation
Country: Australia
International Early Psychosis Association (IEPA)
International Early Psychosis Association (IEPA)
IEPA is an international network for those involved in the study and treatment of the early phases of mental health disorders encompassing a trans-diagnostic approach. With its origins in early intervention in psychosis, IEPA aims to enhance awareness of the early phases of mental health disorders more generally, their causes, prevention and the process of recovery. It aims to provide a network for international communication and collaboration between stakeholders. IEPA members include clinicians, researchers, administrators, policy makers, and individuals with an interest in the field of early intervention in psychiatry. They aim to:
- Enhance awareness of the early phases of mental illnesses and the process of recovery, building on experience from research on early psychosis to take a trans-diagnostic view.
- Provide a network for international communication and collaboration between stakeholders, including mental health professionals, consumers and their families, and policy makers.
- Contribute to the development of knowledge about the early stages of mental illnesses and their treatment.
- Facilitate research, including multi-centre trials, cross-cultural research, and long-term studies.
- Facilitate the development and promotion of best practice in identifying early psychosis and other mental health disorders, and providing optimal treatment.
- Improve services to young people with emerging mental ill-health, and their families, through encouragement of appropriate mental health policies.
- Improve access to information on the identification and treatment of mental ill health in its early phases.
- Arrange conferences and professional meetings on an international level that focus on the early phase of mental health disorders.
- Provide links to existing educational resources and training options.
The IEPA hosts an international conference every two years, providing an excellent opportunity for sharing experiences and exchanging ideas.
Early Intervention in Mental Health
Early Intervention in Mental Health
Early intervention (EI) in mental health is a simple concept drawing on a small number of principles: the prompt engagement, assessment and delivery of effective bio-psycho-social interventions to people at risk of or in the early stages of experiencing mental ill health, appropriate to the stage of their condition and their own developmental phase. Characteristics of EI include striving to minimise treatment delays and maximise the prospects of recovery, reliance on evidence-based, systemically (family) inclusive and diagnostically agnostic methods delivered through multidisciplinary, expert services; EI can encompass primary or indicated preventative approaches.
Most comprehensively developed for psychotic illnesses arising largely in the second and third decades of life EI draws on models used in other domains such as heart disease, stroke and cancer where early treatment is accepted as crucial, and shares strong evidence of individual and cost benefits. The recent change of our organisation’s name from the International Early Psychosis Association to IEPA: Early Intervention in Mental Health reflects our efforts to expand the approach beyond psychosis to other mental health disorders and to other stages of the life course.
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
Early Intervention in Psychiatry focuses on the early diagnosis and treatment of all mental health problems and disorders and promotes the importance of early intervention in psychiatric practice. Articles across the full range of psychiatric disorders are welcomed, including schizophrenia and other psychoses, mood and anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, eating disorders and personality disorders, as well as the underlying epidemiological, biological, psychological and social mechanisms that influence the onset of these disorders. Papers in the following fields will be considered: diagnostic issues, psychopathology, clinical epidemiology, biological mechanisms, treatments and other forms of intervention, clinical trials, health services and economic research and mental health policy.
Early Intervention in Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews dealing with the early recognition, diagnosis and treatment across the full range of mental and substance use disorders, as well as the underlying epidemiological, biological, psychological and social mechanisms that influence the onset and early course of these disorders. The journal provides comprehensive coverage of early intervention for the full range of psychiatric disorders and mental health problems, including schizophrenia and other psychoses, mood and anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, eating disorders and personality disorders. Papers in any of the following fields are considered: diagnostic issues, psychopathology, clinical epidemiology, biological mechanisms, treatments and other forms of intervention, clinical trials, health services and economic research and mental health policy. Special features are also published, including hypotheses, controversies and snapshots of innovative service models.
In contrast with mainstream healthcare, early diagnosis and intervention has come late to the field of psychiatry. Early Intervention in Psychiatry creates a common forum for researchers and clinicians with an interest in the early phases of a wide range of disorders to share ideas, experience and data. This journal not only fills a gap, but also creates a new frontier in academic and clinical psychiatry.
International First Episode Vocational Recovery (iFEVR)
International First Episode Vocational Recovery (iFEVR)
The International First Episode Vocational Recovery (iFEVR) group is a group of clinicians, researchers, economists and policy makers from several countries. In 2008 they developed an international consensus statement called Meaningful Lives: Supporting young people with psychosis in education, training and employment.
Country
Australia
Contact Person / Email
eoin@unimelb.edu.au
International Physical Health in Youth Stream (iphYs)
International Physical Health in Youth Stream (iphYs)
The International Physical Health in Youth Stream (iphYs) collaboration began in 2010 at the IEPA conference in Amsterdam. iphYs is a group of clinicians, service users, family members and researchers from more than eleven countries who joined forces to develop an international consensus statement in 2013 on improving the physical health of young people with psychosis.
The statement, called Healthy Active Lives (HeAL), aims to reverse the trend of people with severe mental illness dying early by tackling risks for future physical illnesses through a prevention and early intervention approach. HeAL is relevant to practice and calls for evidence-based physical health interventions to be provided pro-actively and right from the start for young people experiencing psychosis for the first time. HeAL offers a way that clinicians, consumers, families and other interested collaborators can advocate for evidence-based services. Download PDF.
Country
Australia
Contact Person / Email
j.curtis@unsw.edu.au
Organisation
Address: P.O. BOX 143 Parkville, Victoria 3052
Country: Australia
Email: secretariat@iepa.org.au