A National Institute of Health review of treatment strategies for early onset schizophrenia that will appear in Frontiers in Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry finds that although “second-generation antipsychotics remain the mainstay of treatment … current medications provide suboptimal response at best.” The authors recommend, based on the adult literature, adding psychotherapeutic intervention for “a more comprehensive treatment strategy.”
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this is why the hearing voices approach is so important, it has freed many people from the tyranny of their voices and helped them gain control of their experience. Many having been able to come off anti -psychotics completely , whilst others have reduced their medication. As well as hearing voices groups, there is one-one work using tools like the working with voices workbook and the maastricht interview and voice dialoguing. This approach is beginning to take root in America but has been used for 25 years in the Uk and some other european countries. there are also growing networks in Australia and New Zealand
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Is this article connected to the correct hyperlink? It appears that the hyperlinked article does not match the article cited on the web site.
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Whoops. Fixed now. Thanks.
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