Dr Nev Jones - Beyond early intervention

Описание: How we help young people who have had an experience of early psychosis reconnect with their employment and educational goals was the focus of the Let's get functional two-day symposium held in Melbourne in May 2019.

Let’s get functional brought together staff from primary care services and primary health networks, tertiary early psychosis workers, clinicians, academics, young people and family members.

The symposium, which was convened by Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health attracted 250 people from around Australia.

Nev Jones is an assistant professor in the departments of mental health law and policy and psychiatry at the University of South Florida and affiliate faculty of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute. A community psychologist by training, Dr. Jones' research has focused on two primary areas: mental health services for youth and young adults experiencing emerging serious mental illness (with a focus on early psychosis), and youth/young adult/service user inclusion, leadership and capacity building in the context of research, research-driven policy work and program development. Herself an alumni of early intervention in psychosis services, current funded projects include an investigation of the impact of involuntary hospitalizations on young people during initial pathways to care, and the post-discharge trajectories of former EIP recipients in the US.