Establishing Early Intervention Services Around the World
IEPA was founded with the idea of spreading the concept of Early intervention in youth mental health throughout the world. Over the first 25 years of the organisations existence this has been achieved in several anglophone and Northern European Countries as well as in Australia. However, less is known about the development and challenges to development of such services in other settings. Establishment in other settings may involve overcoming different cultural prejudices, convincing funders of the importance of early intervention and many other challenges that are not present in countries with well-established early intervention or youth mental health services. This symposium brings together 4 pioneering sites to discuss how, in their context, early intervention services evolved from an idea to a reality. The settings are Tunisia, South Korea, Chile, and Greece. While these services are at different stages of development and maturity, speakers will discuss how they established the service, barriers and how they were overcome and how their services continue to develop.
Chair: Helen Hermann
Nikos C Stefanis: A long and windy road: Towards implementation of the first community-based EIP services in Greece
Sung-Wan Kim: A stigma free youth friendly community-based early intervention model in Korea
Uta Ouali, Amina Aissa, Amine Larnaout:
The Clinical High-Risk Program – Tunis (CHiRP): Challenges and Successes in setting up a Service for Early Detection and Intervention in Tunisia/ North Africa
Alfonso Gonzalez Valderrama, Cristián Mena H:
Development of an early intervention program in psychosis in Chile: successes, barriers and challenges