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Clinical staging: a heuristic and practical strategy for new research and better health and social outcomes for psychotic and related mood disorders.
Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie - 1 Aug 2010
McGorry Patrick D, Nelson Barnaby, Goldstone Sherilyn, Yung Alison R
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Most mental illnesses emerge during adolescence and early adulthood, with considerable associated distress and functional decline appearing during this critical developmental phase. Our current diagnostic system lacks therapeutic validity, particularly for the early stages of mental disorders when symptoms are still emerging and intensifying and have not yet stabilized sufficiently to fit the existing syndromal...
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