Psychosis is a mental illness that changes information processing in the brain. Various factors, including infections, genetics, stress, injury, traumatic events, alcohol and drug abuse, and problems with mental health (such as schizophrenia), may cause psychosis. Some of the determinants for psychosis include lower-quality social ties, low income, unequal access to power, education, and wealth, unfavorable housing, education, and work policies, poor job environment conditions; stress at work, poor housing, and suffering from feelings of worthlessness, poor self-esteem, worry, rage, or loneliness may all induce psychosis. Neglect, inability to connect with people, severe childhood psychological trauma, including physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, and a significant early loss, including the death of a parent, may likewise cause psychosis. Drawing from the equity health assessment, it is evident that prevention of psychosis onset, emphasizing teens and young adults, is a significant public health concern. However, the public health sector and government should address several underlying and pertinent concerns for the program to be effective. These include unfavorable governmental policies, including housing, education, and work policies which further bring about significant economic and social disparities. Otherwise, the efforts to prevent psychosis onset through the use of community programs are futile.
Significance
This SAMHSA award program aims to identify kids and young adults under the age of twenty-five who are at high risk for psychosis and deliver evidence-based therapies to prevent psychosis or reduce the degree of psychotic disease. This treatment intends to: enhance behavioral and symptomatic functioning; reintroduce age-appropriate educational, social, and occupational activities to kids and young adults to prevent or delay the development of psychosis; and for those who acquire psychotic signs, reduce the duration of unmanaged psychosis.
Milestone Two
Strategic Action Plan
The proposed program's vision is to empower young individuals at risk of developing psychosis by educating, supporting, equipping, and providing services. The proposed program's mission is to enhance the livelihoods of young people at psychosis risk by developing, executing, and building a comprehensive centralized system to raise psychosis awareness, increase individualism, and boost their access to treatment and services.
The proposed program's objectives and strategies involve the following:
● Objective 1: Create instructional programs, rehabilitate, and connect with at least twenty percent of young people in the United States who are already displaying indications of psychosis by this year October.
○ Strategy 1. A: Create a community instruction plan, which entails designating the region to be serviced, assessing possible and anticipated
difficulties, creating staff tasks and leadership, and choosing constituents and organizations to be engaged and educated.
○ Strategy 1. B: Establishing a project steering group to assist the target group's relevant public and professional institutions in becoming fully cognizant and engaged with one another
● Objective 2: Identify and train at least two-hundred community groups in the United States that can recognize young persons who are showing early psychosis symptoms by this year in June.
○ Strategy 2. A: Developing a lengthy-term outreach and education and outreach initiative.
○ Strategy 2. B: Map out groups to be engaged and informed, which encompass young people aged twelve to twenty-five, and a network made up of educators, care providers, loved ones, mental health specialists, multi-cultural associations, and local organizations.
● Objective 3: Educate populations around the United States, notably school workers, psychiatrists, and general practitioners who are may come in contact with young people in the early psychosis stages before December.
○ Strategy 3. A: Developing educational materials for the organizations chosen and training community personnel to assist people experiencing onset to comprehend their symptoms and get treatment options.
○ Strategy 3. B: Preliminary and follow-up evaluations of community outreach seek to identify accomplishments, remaining issues, and the validity of outreach initiatives to model criteria for community implementation.