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- Psychotic disorders can be hard to distinguish from other mental health issues like depression and anxiety, making it tough for patients to get appropriate care.
- Inpatient psychiatric care has become shorter and focuses mainly on immediate crises rather than long-term support, often leaving some patients marginalized.
- Intensive case management, involving collaboration with family and social networks, has proven effective in addressing the needs of psychotic patients, with examples from Lausanne highlighting its practical application.
Article Abstract
Psychotic patients to not access easily to psychiatric care. First, psychotic disorders are difficult to identify among a great number of non psychotic depressive and anxious disorders. Second, inpatient care has shortened and now focus on acute care rather than long stay. For some psychotic patients, desinstitutionalization means exclusion and marginalization. Intensive case management can answer these needs in collaboration with relatives and professionals of patient's social network. Results and care's steps of intensive case management as practiced in Lausanne are described and illustrated with cases vignettes.
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