Working with Psychosis - Psychology PRACTITIONER ACCRED CERT

Psychosis can affect anyone, with about 3 percent experiencing a psychotic episode in life, often beginning in adolescence. Raise awareness and support early intervention through training.

Psychosis affects about 3 percent of young people, commonly ages 13 to 30, and can begin as early as age 8; screening data from youths show cases are being addressed.

Identify key risk factors for psychosis, including prior psychotic episodes, family history, substance use, and significant life events, and learn to monitor warning signs in vulnerable settings.

Practice handling a psychosis scenario by observing agitation and disorientation, speaking with a patient who distrusts others, assessing safety, and forming a clinical hypothesis.

Identify warning signs across behavior, emotion, social, perception, thinking, and speech to intervene early in psychosis. Recognize hallucinations, delusions, and distorted thoughts to seek timely treatment and support.

Engage in a guided brainstorming activity to interpret a disclosure about an out-of-body experience and obsession with government policies, exploring what is happening, what happened, and what information is needed.

The three psychosis phases—programmer phase, acute phase, and recovery phase—describe symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, and the role of treatment and relapse risk.

Explore psychotic disorders as severe mental illnesses that impair thinking, judgment, emotion, daily functioning, and relationships, disrupt communication, and detach people from reality, including schizophrenia, delusional disorder, and bipolar psychosis.

Reflect on a challenging situation you managed with psychosis, describe what you did, and prepare to apply lessons for handling violent psychotic episodes.

Observe history and signs to detect a psychotic episode early. Assess urgency and risk to self and others, and uphold duty of care by seeking backup and emergency help.

Learn risk-aware, compassionate approaches to managing a psychotic episode by engaging with the person, reporting observations accurately, avoiding untrained actions, and seeking supervisor backup.

Brainstorm practical strategies for managing violent, aggressive behavior during psychotic episodes in confined spaces, and learn to protect others in care.

Identify indicators of violence and aggression during psychosis, such as pacing, agitation, raised voices, or a history of violence; observe, monitor, and follow escalation protocols with staff backup.

Assess suicide risk during psychotic episodes by evaluating thoughts of worthlessness, intent, plans, frequency, prior attempts within six months, and risks to self or others, with emergency escalation if imminent.

Apply a five-step flow to manage psychotic episodes: recognize symptoms, investigate risk factors, assess suicide and self-harm risk, manage violence, and record the incident.

Understand how emergency services route a psychosis case through referral and triage into UK health teams. Treatments include antipsychotic drugs and CBT across acute and recovery phases.