Frauke Schultze-Lutter (Germany)

Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Since 04/2017, Frauke Schultze-Lutter works at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (PP), Heinrich-Heine University / LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Germany where she is associate Professor and head of the research unit “Early Detection” and of the early detection and intervention (EDI) service. Furthermore, she is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Psychology, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia, and guest lecturer at the University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (CAPP), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Before, she had led the Research Department of the University Hospital of CAPP in Bern where she had established and led an EDI service run as a common project of the University Psychiatric Hospital Bern (PP and CAPP) and the Soteria Bern. Earlier, in 1998, she had co-initiated and, until 2009, lead Europe’s first EDI service (FETZ) at the PP, University of Cologne, Germany. Working in the field of EDI since 1994, she is an internationally recognized expert in this field and, for many years, provides training and supervision in clinical high-risk of psychosis assessment. Besides more than 140 original publications in high impact international journals, she is main author of the European Psychiatric Association’s guidance on the early detection of psychosis.

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Conference Calendar

Webinar - EPA Course 09: The Early Detection of Psychosis: An Introductive Training Course

Session Type

EPA Course

Date

Sun, 05.06.2022

Session Time

08:00 - 10:00

Room

Hall K

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Session Description

Organised by the EPA Section on Prevention of Mental Disorders. Early intervention in psychosis has an already established role in reducing the duration of untreated psychosis, preventing or at least delaying psychosis onset, and relieving clinical high-risk (CHR) patients them from their presenting symptoms. However, as a thorough diagnosis is always the prerequisite of a good intervention, the accurate early detection of psychoses by their CHR states is a prerequisite for an early tailored intervention in psychosis. In this course we will therefore focus on the early detection. The course participants will learn and discuss: - the concept of early detection, the rationale for the clinical approach, and the existing evidence-base - to recognize potential early signs of psychosis and learn the basics of diagnosing CHR states using different instruments for their assessment - to discuss potential ethical dilemmas, - the main theoretical challenges and - common obstacles in early detection. The course is practical and interactive, and suitable for mental health professional of all levels of experience. The participants will be able to present cases and problems from their daily work. The knowledge and experience acquired in this course are relevant as basis for the EPA course on Early Intervention and applicable to all areas of mental health. After the course the participants shall be able to detect patients possibly at clinical high-risk for psychosis.

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