Brief Interventions for Psychosis: Overview and Future Directions

Abstract

The ever-growing gap between the needs of the clients with psychosis and the limited therapeutic resources available to them have inspired the innovators in our field not only to develop pragmatic and need-based models of treatment but also have propelled to integrate these with the strength-based and evidence-based models of care. Brief therapeutic interventions probably germinated in those contexts and have proliferated cross-culturally at this lime, thereby expediting and personalizing the care for the needy and at the same time not losing their evidence-based foundations. This book amply highlights the current limitations in the care provided for individuals with psychotic disorders, integrates the various evidence-based psychotherapies or psychosocial interventions, and aims lo bridge the current gaps in the health-care provision. Care is best provided when we have a longitudinal view of the entire spectrum of psychotic process and devise various interventions appropriate for each stage. We begin by making a case for integrated care pathways for psychosis in Chap. 2, which is followed by chapters on different evidence-based interventions in brief formats. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)