Aims Young people with their first episode of psychosis can feel lonely and isolated. Psychoeducation has been shown to increase patient insight, reduce the risk relapse forms part Quality Standards for Early Intervention in Psychosis Services. Our aim was knowledge service users an urban cohort by delivering psychoeducation interactive online format, due restrictions on socialising during COVI...

Just less than one-third of those with first-episode psychosis (FEP) disengage from clinical services due to, among other factors, untreated psychosis, symptom severity at baseline, and substance abuse and dependence, according to this systematic review. The data suggest that those who enter an FEP program without family involvement and support, as well as those who maintain persistent substanc...

Facial affect discrimination and identification were assessed in 86 clinical high-risk individuals and compared with 50 individuals with first-episode psychosis, 53 with multi-episode schizophrenia and 55 non-psychiatric controls. On the identification task the non-psychiatric controls performed significantly better than all other groups, and on discrimination significantly better than both pat...

BACKGROUND Previous cross-sectional studies have highlighted a number of obstetric variables that may be associated with the development of broadly defined puerperal (post-partum) psychosis. These include: (a) primiparity, (b) pregnancy complications, (c) delivery complications, (d) Caesarean section, (e) female baby and (f) shorter gestation period. AIMS To examine these risk factors in wome...

Over recent years early intervention in psychosis has fired the imagination of clinicians and researchers, following the publication of several studies linking a long duration of psychosis prior to receiving treatment with a poor treatment outcome: a relationship that has been cogently argued to be independent of illness factors (e.g. Scully et al, 1997). Most influential was Wyatt’s (1991) rev...

Mentalizing deficits have often been observed in people with schizophrenia and a few recent studies suggest that such deficits are also present in patients with first episode psychosis (FEP). It is not clear, however, whether these mentalizing deficits in FEP can be accounted for by underlying processes such as social cue recognition, social knowledge and general reasoning. In this study, we as...