Youth Mental Health: A Paradigm for Prevention and Early Intervention

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Experts discuss the potential of early intervention to transform outcomes for people with mental disorders. Mental illness represents one of the largest disease burdens worldwide, yet treatments have been largely ineffective in improving the quality of life for millions of affected individuals—in part because approaches taken have focused on late-stage disorders in adulthood. This volume shifts the focus by placing the developmental stage of “youth” at the center of mental health. The contributors challenge current nosology, explore mechanisms that underlie the emergence of mental disorders, and propose a framework to guide early intervention. Offering recommendations for the future, the book holds that early intervention in youth has the potential to transform outcomes for people with mental disorders and to reconfigure the landscape of mental health. The contributors discuss epidemiology, classification, and diagnostic issues, including the benefits of clinical staging; the context for emerging mental disorders, including both biological and sociocultural processes; biological mechanisms underlying risk for psychopathology, including aspects of neural circuitry; and developing and implementing prevention and early intervention, including assessment and intervention modalities and knowledge translation in early treatment of schizophrenia. Contributors Nicholas B. Allen, Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, G. Paul Amminger, Shelli Avenevoli, Hannah F. Behrendt, Tolulope Bella-Awusah, Maximus Berger, Byron K. Y. Bitanihirwe, Drew Blasco, John D. Cahill, Joanne S. Carpenter, Andrew M. Chanen, Eric Y. H. Chen, Shane D. Colombo, Christoph U. Correll, Christopher G. Davey, Kim Q. Do, Damien A. Fair, Helen L. Fisher, Sophia Frangou, John Gleeson, Robert K. Heinssen, Ian B. Hickie, Frank Iorfino,Matcheri S. Keshavan, Kerstin Konrad, Phuong Thao D. Le, Francis Lee, Leslie D. Leve, Sarah A. Lieff, Cindy H. Liu, Beatriz Luna, Patrick D. McGorry, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Shreya V. Nallur, Cristopher Niell, Merete Nordentoft, Dost Öngür, George C. Patton, Tomáš Paus, Ulrich Reininghaus, Bernalyn Ruiz, Fred Sabb, Akira Sawa, Michael Schoenbaum, Gunter Schumann, Elizabeth M. Scott, Jai Shah, Vinod H. Srihari, Ezra Susser, John Torous, Peter J. Uhlhaas, Swapna K. Verma, T. Wilson Woo, Stephen J. Wood, Lawrence H. Yang, Alison R. Yung Intro Contents Preface List of Contributors Youth Mental Health: Toward a New Paradigm Epidemiology, Classification, and Disgnostic Issues The Utility of Clinical Staging in Youth Mental Health Settings A Developmentally Informed Approach to Characterizing, Staging, and Intervening in Youth Mental Health Problems: From the Population to the Clinic Context for Emerging Mental Disorders A Developmental Science Perspective on Vulnerability and Intervention for Youth Mental Health How Are Developing Social Relationships Relevant to Risk and Resilience in Youth Mental Health? Biological, Psychological and Sociocultural Processes in Emerging Mental Disorders in Youth Biological Mechanisms Underlying Risk for Psychopathology Dynamic Elements and Aspects of Neural Circuitry in Relation to Developmental Psychopathology in Youth Biological Mechanisms Underlying Risk for Emerging Psychopathology in Youth The Development of Brain Circuits during Youth: A Framework for Understanding Emerging Mental Disorders and Early Intervention Developing and Implementing Prevention and Early Intervention Novel Modalities for Assessment and Intervention in Youth Mental Health: Digital Interventions and Omega-3 Fatty Acids The "Clinical High-Risk State for Psychosis" in Youth Early Interention for Schizophrenia Developing and Implementing Tools for Prevention and Early Intervention Future Directions for Youth Mental Health Lessons Learned and Future Directions for Early Intervention and Youth Mental Health Paradigms: Research for Reform Abbreviations Bibliography Subject Index Strüngmann Forum Report Series