What is it about?
This article ranks and discusses the priorities that young adults and their loved ones list as most important for them after an emergency hospitalization for a mental health crisis that has been diagnosed as first-episode psychosis.
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Why is it important?
About half of young adults never return to mental health treatment in the first six months after an emergency hospitalization for psychosis, but early care is important for recovery. We need to know what is important to young adults to make services more attractive to them. In addition, this article focuses on the priorities of racial and ethnic minority youth who reported negative early experiences with the mental health care on offer and this work makes suggestions for making mental health treatment a more positive experience for them.
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Our nation is failing young adults experiencing a first mental health crisis. The research shows that if we help people early, in a holistic way that may include medicine, but also therapy for the young adult and their loved ones to help them repair relationships damaged during a psychotic episode, educational and vocational support to keep them in school and work, and keep the costs of that care to a minimum to prevent an early financial burden on a young adult, then we can return young people to a fulfilling life in recovery. This article shows just how much young adults and their loved ones want this kind of support, and just how little support we are giving them in the real world. Young adults deserve a different kind of mental health care.
Neely Myers
Southern Methodist University
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This page is a summary of: Decision Making About Pathways Through Care for Racially and Ethnically Diverse Young Adults With Early Psychosis, Psychiatric Services, March 2019, American Psychiatric Association,
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201700459.
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