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Recognizing Psychosis
Early recognition changes outcomes. Learn the warning signs and what to do next. Click the topics below to learn more about recognizing psychosis and beginning the conversation about it.
What to look for
Common early warning signs, changes in thinking, perception, behavior, and functioning that may signal psychosis.
Starting the conversation
How to open with curiosity and matter-of-fact language that helps a young person share.
Follow-up questions
Deeper questions to explore experience, impact, and change over time.
Screening questionnaires
Validated tools (PQ-16, PQ-B, Y-PARQ, PQ-BC, PS-R) that can help elicit disclosure.
What else could it be?
Could this be Depression? Anxiety? ADHD?
Case Examples
Realistic vignettes showing how early psychosis can present in teens and young adults.
Keep reading
All understanding psychosis pages →- Understanding psychosisWhat to look forThe FACTS early-warning framework with concrete examples of each domain.For families
- Understanding psychosisStarting the conversationHow to ask a young person about unusual experiences without shutting them down.For families
- Understanding psychosisFollow-up questionsWhere to go once someone says yes to a screening question.For everyone
- Understanding psychosisCase examplesShort clinical vignettes showing how early psychosis actually presents.For everyone
- Clinician toolsScreening questionnairesPQ-16, PQ-B and other downloadable screening instruments.For clinicians