Canadian Treatment Guidelines on Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia in Children and Youth.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A panel of experts, including researchers, clinicians and people with lived experience, was brought together to develop the new Canadian schizophrenia guidelines for the psychosocial treatment of children and youth with schizophrenia or psychotic disorders.

Method

The ADAPTE process, which relies on adapting existing high-quality guidelines, was used. Existing guidelines for children and youth (mostly from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence [NICE]), as well as CPA adult guidelines, were reviewed and discussed in terms of their adaptability to the Canadian context and their level of recommendation for children and youth. New treatments were also considered when recent meta-analyses suggested their usefulness.

Results

The children and youth

SUBMITTER: Lecomte T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5593249 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature