Assessing Youth with Psychotic Experiences: A Phenomenological Approach

This article shows how a systematic, domain-based, phenomenological approach to assessing psychotic symptoms in youth facilitates the gathering of the nuanced clinical information necessary to understand a child ’s specific experience. Mapping this information onto a narrative timeline, while understanding the evolution and developmental context of psychotic experiences, is essential in making an accurate diagnostic formulation and appropriate treatment plan for youth presenting with psychotic experiences .
Source: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research