Service description
PAUSE can support people for up to two years. Assessments and interventions are provided within a multidisciplinary team approach and include NICE recommended Family and CBT interventions; Social Inclusion; Education and Peer interventions. All interventions focus on reducing stigma and helping individuals maintain or further develop their education, work, and social links.
Social inclusion is a significant part of the PAUSE remit. As such the service aims to be embedded in local communities with individuals and their networks being seen either at home or in locations suitable to them. Creative and flexible ways of engaging individuals are adopted with a particular focus on engaging with disadvantaged and often marginalised groups and communities that services have historically struggled to engage with.
With a focus on early detection of individuals potentially at risk of psychosis, PAUSE seeks to reduce the number of people who meet the threshold for diagnosis and go on to need secondary care services longer term. It will also help facilitate rapid transition of individuals with an emerging psychosis to the PIER team, reducing the duration of untreated psychosis which is key to improving longer term outcomes.
Referral criteria
- Aged 14 – 35 years