The Islington Early Intervention Service is dedicated to the assessment and management of people who have presented to specialist mental health services with a first episode of psychosis.

The service aims to give people the best chance of recovery after a first episode of psychosis and reduce the severity of relapses.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

• Camden and Islington residents
• aged 17.5 years +
  • those referred over the age of 65 will be considered on a case-by-case basis

and experiencing

• first episode of psychosis at least once a week (unless curtailed by treatment before week is up)
• a period of psychosis accompanied by significant risk of decline in functioning
• psychosis not considered to be drug-induced 
• symptoms not wholly explicable in context of post-traumatic stress disorder and/or personality disorder

and 

• not taking anti-psychotic medication for more than six weeks, unless this was started in the past three months

Exclusions

• clear organic cause for the psychosis
• pyschosis caused by drug use (a person was initially well, then acutely unwell following drug use, then made rapid recovery)

How to Refer