Valuable resources for providers and families alike
In-depth clinical resources, research references, and educational materials for providers working with patients experiencing thought disorders and psychosis.
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Research & clinical insights
Differential Diagnosis: Is it Autism or Early Psychosis in Teens?
Is it autism or psychosis? This guide helps you differentiate and find social skills training for teens with psychosis and autism. Learn about MCT & CA OnTrack.
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Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT): A Guide to Evidence-Based Recovery
Learn how social cognition and interaction training helps decode social cues for recovery from psychosis or autism. Reclaim your community with this guide.
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Autism, Schizophrenia, and the Central Role of Social Cognition
How overlapping social cognition deficits shape care for co-occurring autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and what evidence-based interventions actually help.
Pand Health Featured in The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal profiled Pand Health's coordinated specialty care model and its impact on early psychosis outcomes for teens and young adults.
Prodromal Schizophrenia: Symptoms, Stages & Treatment Guide for Families
The most complete guide to prodromal schizophrenia for families: early warning signs, how long it lasts, how it's diagnosed, and why early treatment changes everything.
Why Won't Your Insurance Cover Specialty Care for Schizophrenia and Early Psychosis?
In recent years, there has been a growing concern surrounding the accessibility of specialty care for those suffering from schizophrenia and early psychosis, particularly among young adults and teens.
PROVIDER FOCUSED PRINTED MATERIALS
Screening Questionnaires
Validated self-report tools (PQ-16, PQ-B, Y-PARQ, PQ-BC, PS-R) to help elicit disclosure of psychotic-like experiences.
EASA-Oregon Materials
Downloadable EASA manuals, self-advocacy tools, and family living guides for young people and their support networks.
Psychosis & Regression in Down Syndrome
A diagnostic framework for ages 10 to 30: separating Down Syndrome Regression Disorder, catatonia, delirium, and reversible medical mimics from primary psychosis.
Pand Health vs. the National CSC Landscape
A comparative analysis of Coordinated Specialty Care for early psychosis: how the California OnTrack CSC+ model compares to OnTrackNY, McLean STAR and OnTrack, and Yale STEP on diagnosis, duration, modalities, and financing.
Computational Psychiatry Tutorials
A guided path through predictive coding, aberrant salience, belief updating, and the interventions that target each mechanism.
Sense of Agency in Schizophrenia
Corollary discharge, N1 suppression, and intentional binding: how self-authorship collapses, and the bottom-up and top-down therapies that restore it.
Psychosis Triage Protocol
A safety-first, four-node decision pathway for new-onset psychosis: when to send a patient to the emergency department and when to refer directly to Coordinated Specialty Care, with an interactive triage calculator.
Autoimmune Psychosis
Anti-NMDAR encephalitis and other antibody-mediated psychoses: red flags, the Pollak consensus tiers, paired serum and CSF antibody testing, and immunotherapy.
Genetic Causes of Psychosis
A comprehensive review of polygenic risk, the C4/MHC locus, SCHEMA rare-variant genes, and recurrent copy number variants, plus what polygenic risk scores can and cannot tell you in clinic.
Pand Testing
Samples of cognitive tests that show deficits among patients with psychosis.
Recognition and Differential Diagnosis of Psychosis in Primary Care
AAFP clinical review on identifying psychosis in primary care, differential diagnosis, and initial workup.
Schedule & Groups
A detailed look at the California OnTrack weekly group schedule and the evidence-based therapeutic groups that make up our Coordinated Specialty Care program.
Psychosis Screening Toolkit for Primary Care
Practical primary-care tools for screening, identifying, and responding to psychosis and clinical high-risk states.
Motivational Interviewing
Visual and in-depth guides to the LEAP and MILO communication frameworks for families navigating mental health crises, anosognosia, and treatment refusal.
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