Psychotic-like experiences, such as suspiciousness and unusual thoughts, are common among adolescents who are referred to adolescent psychiatric care. The symptoms are often associated with depression and self-destructive behavior. Researchers emphasize the importance of their systematic assessment as part of adolescent care.
Psychotic-like experiences resemble symptoms of psychosis, but are milder, less frequent and much more common than psychotic disorders. While these symptoms do not constitute a disorder diagnosed as psychosis, they can still be disruptive, distressing or detrimental to functional capacity. Typical psychotic-like experiences include perceptual distortions and hallucinations, suspicious paranoid thinking, delusions and bizarre, unusual thoughts.
"Our findings provide a clear recommendation for treatment practices: psychotic-like experiences should be assessed as part of routine procedures, but it is also important to determine how they are perceived. These phenomena cannot be uncovered unless separately and systematically asked," says the principal investigator, Docent Niklas Granö.
"The assessment and treatment of adolescent mental health has been entirely underresourced in Finland. Now, the launch and development of operations by the new wellbeing services counties offers a great opportunity to develop psychiatric care for adolescents and take into consideration the assessment and potential treatment, even in the short term, of common symptoms that are often excluded from systematic assessment," says Granö.
Under the surface: paranoid and unusual thought content are associated with depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in adolescents entering psychiatric careAdolescent depression and behavior problems are on the rise and paternal depression may be contributing to this increase, regardless of whether the fathers and children are genetically related, ...
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