PMID- 28730848 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180510 LR - 20220409 IS - 1497-0015 (Electronic) IS - 0706-7437 (Print) IS - 0706-7437 (Linking) VI - 62 IP - 9 DP - 2017 Sep TI - Canadian Treatment Guidelines for Individuals at Clinical High Risk of Psychosis. PG - 656-661 LID - 10.1177/0706743717719895 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVE: Young people who are at clinical high risk (CHR) of developing psychosis are often help seeking and have significant distress and dysfunction. There are limited guidelines for the assessment and treatment for this population. The aim of this guideline was to develop treatment recommendations for this at-risk group. METHOD: A systematic search was conducted for published guidelines for CHR. All current guidelines for schizophrenia were reviewed for treatment guidelines on individuals at CHR. The recommendations adopted were primarily drawn from the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance on the early intervention in clinical high-risk states of psychoses and the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines on the treatment and management of those at CHR for psychosis. RESULTS: After the guideline development process described, 9 recommendations were developed based on the quality of evidence, appropriateness for the Canadian health care system, and clinical expert consensus. CONCLUSIONS: Assessment by an expert in the field was the first recommendation. It was recommended that treatment follow a staged approach with psychological treatments being the first-line treatment and pharmacotherapy reserved for adults, those who did not respond to psychological interventions, and those who had more severe symptoms. FAU - Addington, Jean AU - Addington J AD - 1 Department of Psychiatry, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. FAU - Addington, Donald AU - Addington D AD - 1 Department of Psychiatry, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. FAU - Abidi, Sabina AU - Abidi S AD - 2 Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. FAU - Raedler, Thomas AU - Raedler T AD - 1 Department of Psychiatry, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. FAU - Remington, Gary AU - Remington G AD - 3 Department of Psychiatry and Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. AD - 4 Schizophrenia Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20170721 PL - United States TA - Can J Psychiatry JT - Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie JID - 7904187 SB - IM MH - Canada MH - *Disease Susceptibility MH - Humans MH - Practice Guidelines as Topic/*standards MH - Psychotic Disorders/*therapy PMC - PMC5593244 OTO - NOTNLM OT - clinical high risk OT - guidelines OT - schizophrenia OT - treatment COIS- Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. EDAT- 2017/07/22 06:00 MHDA- 2018/05/11 06:00 PMCR- 2018/03/01 CRDT- 2017/07/22 06:00 PHST- 2017/07/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/05/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/07/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1177_0706743717719895 [pii] AID - 10.1177/0706743717719895 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Can J Psychiatry. 2017 Sep;62(9):656-661. doi: 10.1177/0706743717719895. Epub 2017 Jul 21.