What do young adults need most after a mental health crisis?
What is it about?
This article ranks and discusses the priorities that young adults and their loved ones list as most important for them after an emergency hospitalization for a mental health crisis that has been diagnosed as first-episode psychosis.
Why is it important?
About half of young adults never return to mental health treatment in the first six months after an emergency hospitalization for psychosis, but early care is important for recovery. We need to know what is important to young adults to make services more attractive to them. In addition, this article focuses on the priorities of racial and ethnic minority youth who reported negative early experiences with the mental health care on offer and this work makes suggestions for making mental health treatment a more positive experience for them.