The document discusses research on schizophrenia and early intervention. A two-year study found better outcomes for those at risk for or in the early stages of schizophrenia who received treatment compared to those who did not. While early intervention was once considered inconclusive, research now suggests schizophrenia develops more slowly than previously thought. Diagnosing teenagers can be especially difficult. The most important factor for helping those with schizophrenia may be lasting, one-on-one relationships with caring adults.

1. WELL-BEING &
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Prof.S.B.Gita Narahari
Ph.D in Psychology, Author

2. HALTING
SCHIZOPHRENIA
BEFORE IT STARTS?

3. Research
The results of a two-year study of two groups
of young people at risk for, or in the early
stage of, schizophrenia, which showed
better functional outcomes for those who
went through treatment.

4. PSYCHOSIS?

5. Prodrome-Early stage
◦ Research suggesting that schizophrenia unfolds much more
slowly than might be obvious, even to families.
◦ In 2011, a review of prodrome intervention programs called the
idea of intervention in pre-schizophrenia "inconclusive."
◦ "This is an experiment far before its time," says Allen Frances.

6. Teenagers
◦ "No one is harder to diagnose than a child or a teenager," says Dr.
Allen Frances, a former chair of the psychiatry department at
Duke University and chair of the task force that produced the
fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM-IV,
the standard reference for psychiatric diagnoses.

7. “…. IT IS NOT THE DRUGS, NOT
THE DIAGNOSIS. IT'S THE
LASTING, ONE-ON-ONE
RELATIONSHIPS WITH ADULTS
WHO LISTEN….”

8. THANK YOU
BE HOPEFUL!!!!
gitanarahari@rediffmail.com