NAMI Survey Examines Patient, Family Perceptions of Early Psychosis

Individuals who experience a first psychosis and their family members differ dramatically in perceptions about who first recognized that there were signs of mental illness, according to a survey of patients and families by the National Alliance on  Mental Illness (NAMI). The finding was among the most striking from the survey titled “First Episode Psychosis: Results From a 2011 NAMI Survey.” 

For extensive coverage of issues concerning assessment and interventions for first-episode psychosis, see Psychiatric News at http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/43/18/20.1.full. More information on diagnosis and treatment of psychosis can be found in the book “Essentials of Schizophrenia,” issued by American Psychiatric Publishing. Information on this new book is posted at www.appi.org/SearchCenter/Pages/SearchDetail.aspx?ItemId=62401.
  

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