It is a "medical model" book that argues that psychotic symptoms reflectpsychosis as a condition that merits (primarily) medical treatment.
I believe it is rather too specialised for most UK child and adolescentmental health practice, and the emphasis does not chime with my generalexperiences. For example, I do not agree with the first sentence, whichstates: "Psychotic symptoms are really rather common in clinicalpractice."
For me psychotic symptoms in young people are uncommon. I also have aproblem with the fact that "Homicidal Behaviour" (put before "Suicide")is the book's first subsection under "Risks Associated with PsychoticSymptoms".
Another criticism is that the chapter on psycho-social interventions forpsychosis provides an overview in just 35 pages. I found itinsufficiently detailed and, significantly, there is no reference toEarly Intervention in Psychosis teams or the UK's recovery modelapproach that was introduced by the Department of Health in 2004.
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