Early Intervention

A systematic review of the limited research available on the long-term effects of antipsychotics finds fewer symptoms in those off of the drugs.

Researchers review the risks and benefits of deprescribing from antipsychotic drugs and advocate for a patient-centered approach to tapering.

When controlling for social and family characteristics, separating children from parents into out-of-home care increases psychiatric issues, prescriptions, and criminal activity.

Researchers examine the relationship between vitamin D and clinical and cognitive symptoms in first-episode psychosis.

China Mills raises concerns that global mental health movements obscure social determinants of health and naturalize Western mental health concepts.

Research investigates clinicians’ perspectives on best care practices and the complicated realities of providing care in the face of agency limitations and mechanized interventions.

Researchers parse out factors within urbanicity that leads to risk for psychotic experiences.

A new study suggests needing to appear perfect to others leads to mental health stigma and a higher risk of untreated psychological distress.

Scholars contend that stigma functions as a mechanism of power in analysis of UK Heads Together mental health campaign.

A new study examines the effects of midlife exercise on depression and cardiovascular health later in life.

Coordinated care with employment support and family therapy leads to superior outcomes for those diagnosed with psychotic disorders.

Counter-messaging and a lack of critical analysis may lead doctors away from suggesting exercise for depression.

Results from two meta-analyses reveal shortcomings with the growth mindset theory as applied in schools.

Why do ineffective classification and intervention processes linger in school psychology, and what’s the alternative?

Higher levels of physical activity serve as a protective factor for the future development of depression.

Study finds that traditional healers in South Africa, whose services are widely used by the country’s population, perform important suicide prevention work.

The type of diagnostic assessment used in research settings, either fully structured or semi-structured interview, may affect which participants in receive a diagnosis of major depression.

A new study investigates the relationships between early-home environmental factors and later-life physiological response to psychosocial stressors.

A sea change is needed in the evaluation of children with perceived psychological disturbances. Parents are told that their child has a fictitious biochemical imbalance in the brain while real medical disorders are overlooked. In our family's case, it was Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep (PANDAS).

Researchers connect the impact of early trauma to the development of psychosis in children as young as 7 years old.

Everyday exercise, regardless of intensity, can prevent the development of depressive symptoms.

A combined mindfulness and behavioral activation intervention is shown to reduce depressive symptoms and serve as a preventative factor for major depressive disorder.

Race often determines whether school punishment or therapy and drugs will be used to address children’s problem behaviors.

At 12 months, rates of mortality for those diagnosed with first-episode psychosis are 24 times higher than the general population.

The perspectives of the voice-hearers featured in the research underscore that stigma and negative perceptions of voice hearing present significant obstacles within early intervention programs.