Social and symptomatic outcomes of first-episode bipolar psychoses in an early intervention service

Cognitive behaviour therapy for improving social recovery in psychosis: a report from the ISREP MRC Trial Platform study (Improving Social Recovery in Early Psychosis)

“…The findings may be more consistent with our recent observations, and those of others, that bipolar disorder cases respond rapidly and with good social recovery outcomes to early intervention services compared with non-affective psychosis (Macmillan et al 2007). These gains were unexpected as we had deliberately recruited a group of patients who had stable poor social outcome at recruitment and may be the result of a good response to the TAU provided.…”

“…Previous studies have shown that people with affective psychosis tend to make better recoveries after the first episode (Macmillan et al 2007) and have better social outcomes generally than people with non-affective psychosis (Werry et al 1991 ;Cannon et al 1997 ;Jarbin et al 2003). We aimed to specifically target young people in the early stages of psychotic disorder who were showing persistent signs of poor social functioning and unemployment despite previous efforts by early intervention and mental health services to promote social recovery after the first episode.…”

Intervening early in bipolar disorder in young people: a review of the clinical staging model

“…However, surprisingly few have published data on their BP subgroup or whether they have any specific programmes/interventions for them Macmillan et al 2007). Without specific subprogrammes the risk is that their needs are subsumed into the larger non-affective population.…”