Brief Interventions for Psychosis

This book offers a clinical guide that brings together a broad range of brief interventions and their applications in treating psychosis. It describes two core approaches that can narrow the huge gap between the need for psychotherapeutic interventions for all individuals suffering from psychosis, and the limited mental health resources available.§§One method involves utilizing standard therapeutic modalities in a brief format by integrating the most effective interventions into routine clinical interactions. Towards this end, the book brings in experts on various psychotherapeutic modalities, who discuss how their particular modality could be adapted to fit the existing system of care delivery.§§A second way to extend the availability of brief interventions is to utilize the circle of providers as well as the patient's social circle and to delineate interventions that can be provided in a coordinated and complimentary manner by psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, case managers, peer support specialists and other providers on the one hand, and by family members, friends, social and religious institutions on the other.§§