A psychological and communitarian approach to treating early psychoses: A service description with some initial findings

Abstract

The authors describe the characteristics and the preliminary findings of the Early Care Team for At‐Risk of Psychosis Patients (EAPPP), within the public Primary Health Care System of Barcelona, Spain. The community‐focused work and the psychological and inter‐paradigmatic framework are highlighted as core components of the EAPPP unit in the field of Early Care of Psychosis. Some initial findings in relation to three groups of patients are presented.

Keywords:

• early psychosis
• community prevention
• first episode of psychosis
• at‐risk mental state
• need adapted treatment

Acknowledgements

We thank Ronald Epstein for his linguistic revision.