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Psychosis: Medications
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Psychosis has been shown to respond well to treatments such as antipsychotic medication, and more recently Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy has been suggested as working well. Family and Group therapies are often suggested as working well with certain individuals.
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The two psychiatrists talk next about new medications now being used to treat psychosis, which are far more effective and have fewer side effects. The new medications are helping millions of people recover from psychosis, Dr. Fenton says, people who perhaps spent 20 years in a psychiatric hospital hearing hallucinated voices, afraid to speak for fear of attack.
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Medical treatment for people with psychosis has improved greatly in recent years. Safer and more effective medications have been developed. There ... have been many reforms to the laws that safeguard the rights and freedoms of people with mental illnesses, so that they no longer can be hospitalized against their will without a fair hearing and legal representation.
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The First Episode Clinic offers comprehensive individual and family interventions for first-episode psychosis. The program provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluation, individualized treatment plans, individual and family therapy, case management services, medication management, psycho-education groups for patients and families, vocational and living skills training, research participation opportunities, and other services.
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