Training Materials

This series provides information on serious mental illness, including a history of how treatments have evolved over time, clinical features, and evidenced-based practices.

• Institutionalization and Criminalization of Persons with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Understanding Serious Mental Illness Series: An overview of the historical evolution of institutionalization and criminalization of persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, as well as implications for the CARE process.
• Course and Outcomes: Understanding Serious Mental Illness Series: Discusses the course of schizophrenia over time, including variability of outcomes and additional complications. Discusses implications in the CARE Act.
• American Psychiatric Association (APA) Guidelines for Treatment: Understanding Serious Mental Illness Series: An overview of the American Psychiatric Association Guidelines and applying them to support respondents in the CARE Process.
• Clinical Features and Diagnosis: Understanding Serious Mental Illness Series: An overview of the presentation and features of schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, as well as a discussion of the who and how of diagnosing schizophrenia and the diagnostic criteria.