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To outline the dialogical principles and institutional framework of the Open Dialogue approach and evaluate its clinical outcomes in first-episode psychosis.

September 1, 2003Family Process

The Open Dialogue Approach to Acute Psychosis: Its Poetics and Micropolitics

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JSJaakko SeikkulaUniversity of Jyväskylä MOMary OlsonSmithsonian Institution

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Nonrandomized follow-up study reveals reduced hospitalizations and medication use in first-episode schizophrenia under Open Dialogue, suggesting clinical efficacy of network-based care.

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To outline the dialogical principles and institutional framework of the Open Dialogue approach and evaluate its clinical outcomes in first-episode psychosis.
Characterized the poetics (tolerance of uncertainty, dialogism, polyphony) and systemic micropolitics governing treatment meetings within the Finnish Need-Adapted Treatment model.
Conducted a nonrandomized, 2-year follow-up evaluation among individuals presenting with first-episode schizophrenia.
Mean hospital stay was reduced to approximately 19 days over 2 years, with only 35% of patients requiring neuroleptic medication.
At 2-year follow-up, 82% of patients had no or only mild psychotic symptoms remaining, and only 23% were receiving disability allowance.

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Seikkula et al. (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69de5da557c7c8340a558588 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.2003.00403.x

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Nonrandomized follow-up study reveals reduced hospitalizations and medication use in first-episode schizophrenia under Open Dialogue, suggesting clinical efficacy of network-based care.

The Open Dialogue Approach to Acute Psychosis: Its Poetics and Micropolitics

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The Open Dialogue Approach to Acute Psychosis: Its Poetics and Micropolitics

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