Outcomes for Relatives of People with Psychosis

Outcomes for Relatives of People with Psychosis

Relatives play a key role in supporting people with psychosis at all stages of recovery, but this can be associated with high levels of distress.

• Title: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials of interventions reporting outcomes for relatives of people with psychosis
• Authors: Fiona Lobban, Adam Postlethwaite, David Glentworth, Vanessa Pinfold, Laura Wainwright, Graham Dunn, Anna Clancy, Gillian Haddock
• Date: 2013
• Source: Clinical Psychology Review 33 (2013) 372–382  Elsevier

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Outcomes for Relatives of People with Psychosis

Psychosis & Usher's Syndrome (Case)

Psychosis & Usher's Syndrome (Case)

This report presents a case of Usher's Syndrome in a 19 year-old man, who developed psychotic episodes with paranoid features. 

• Title: Acute Psychosis With Paranoid Features In A Young Patient With Usher's Syndrome: A Case Report
• Authors: Theodor Rais, M.D.
• Date: n.a.
• Source: Priory Lodge Education Ltd 1994-2014

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Cannabis Psychosis

Cannabis Psychosis

There are suggestions that in a small number of cases Cannabis is capable of precipitating psychosis.

• Title: CANNABIS PSYCHOSIS
• Authors: Dr Brian Boettche
• Source: Priory Lodge Education Ltd 1994-1999.

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Cannabis Psychosis