Using discordant twin methods to investigate an environmentally mediated pathway between social support and the reduced likelihood of adolescent psychotic experiences.

CONCLUSIONS: The protective effects of social support on adolescent psychotic experiences cannot be accounted for by shared environmental or genetic factors, nor by earlier psychopathology. Our findings suggest that early intervention programmes focused on increasing perceptions of social support have the potential to prevent the emergence of psychotic experiences amongst adolescents. PMID: 31414649 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31414649?dopt=Abstract

Source: Psychological Medicine - August 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Crush E, Arseneault L, Danese A, Jaffee SR, Fisher HL Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research