Hearing Voices

Katherine M. Boydell is a senior scientist in the Community Health Systems Resource Group and Scientific Director of Qualitative Inquiry in Child Health Evaluative Services at the Hospital for Sick Children, and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. H. Bruce Ferguson was the founding director of the Community Health Systems Resource Group at the Hospital for Sick Children and is a professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

• Hearing Voices: Qualitative Inquiry in Early Psychosis, edited by Katherine M. Boydell and H. Bruce FergusonPreface Katherine Boydell, University of TorontoList of AbbreviationsIntroduction to Early Intervention in First Episode Psychosis Jean Addington, University of CalgaryChapter 1: Recognition of Psychosis in the Pathway to Mental Health Care Katherine M. Boydell, Elaine Stasiulis, Brenda M. Gladstone, Tiziana Volpe, Jean Addington, Paula Goering, Terry Krupa, and Elizabeth McCay, University of Toronto, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Queen's University, and Ryerson UniversityChapter 2: Help-Seeking Experiences of Youth with First Episode Psychosis: A Research-Based Dance Production Katherine M. Boydell, Siona Jackson, and John S. Strauss, University of Toronto and Yale UniversityChapter 3: Qualitative Research with Families of First Episode and Prodromal Patients Ruth Gerson and Cheryl Corcoran, Columbia UniversityChapter 4: Primary Care Perspectives of First Episode Psychosis Helen Lester, University of ManchesterChapter 5: Hearing Echoes: Image Identification and the Clinicians' (Learning) Experience with Early Intervention Joan McIlwrick, University of CalgaryChapter 6: Promoting Constructive Change in the Service System: A Qualitative Study of Change in Staff Attitudes with the Implementation of Early Intervention in Psychosis Alan Rosen, Joanne Gorrell, Alison Cornish, Vivienne Miller, Chris Tennant, Louise Nash, and Dianne McKay, University of MelbourneChapter 7: Ironic Interventions: Balancing Risks and Rewards in First Episode Psychosis via Qualitative Inquiry Sue E. Estroff, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillConclusion Katherine M. Boydell, H. Bruce Ferguson, and Sarah J. Bovaird, University of TorontoIndex

``Hearing Voices is a guide to the application of qualitative research methods to the real-life experiences of youth in the early stages of psychosis and will enhance the care offered by early intervention programs. The book provides examples of how to conduct qualitative research with participants who have a first episode of psychosis, using innovative mediums such as dance as a form of knowledge translation. With a practical focus on key issues such as family intervention, pathways to care, primary care, and service delivery, this resource can help clinicians to adopt evidence-based and consumer-driven ideas into their daily clinical practice and aid researchers who want to use qualitative inquiry in their projects involving this special population.'' -- Dr. Suzanne Archie, Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton -- 201206