Thursday 23 July 15:40
- 17:10
Hall: 18 - Room 15 SA
Chair and Presenter:
Fausor Rocío
Division: Division 6: Clinical and Community Psychology
Psychosis is a serious mental health problem with a clear social and economic impact. Schizophrenia is among the 25
leading causes of disability worldwide (GBD 2021 Diseases and Injuries Collaborators, 2024). In this symposium,
more effective procedures of detection and intervention will be examined.
The assessment of so-called at-risk mental states (ARMS) or ultra-high risk (UHR) is currently considered the gold
standard for early detection of psychosis. However, UHR criteria are not perfect and lead to many false positives. To
refine these criteria, some studies use the combination of this high clinical risk paradigm with what is known as
"high psychometric risk" of psychosis, that uses self-reports to early detection. Dr. Noelia Moran will examine the
difference between those two paradigms in a sample of youth from a clinical sample of day hospitals in Spain. Dr.
Rocío Fausor will analyze the gender profile in high-risk of psychosis clinical sample.
Detection and intervention protocols for psychosis have also been criticized as being a highly specialized (Oliver et
al., 2019), and not necessarily accepted by those who must apply it. Dr. Clara Gesteira will analyze the degree of
acceptability of a high-risk psychosis screening protocol by Spanish clinical staff at a day care center, while Dr. Nina
Mørkved will provide not only some preliminary findings related to the feasibility of a large national Randomized
Clinical Trial testing trauma focused therapy for patients with psychosis and trauma in Norway. But also some results related to the effect of the treatment and the impact on other symptoms and personalization of treatment. Additionally,
meta-analysis reviews have shown low effectiveness of early interventions in people with ARMS (Oliver et al., 2018).
Dr. Lorenzo Pelizza will show the results on the effectiveness of an early intervention for people at high-risk of
psychosis in Italy.
