Development of Psychological Interviewing Techniques to Shorten the Duration of Untreated Psychosis in Individuals with an At-Risk Mental State (ARMS)

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380962
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Kyoto Bunkyo University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUDA Mariko 京都文教大学, 臨床心理学部, 准教授 (40411318)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): YAMAJI Yuki 京都文教大学, 学生相談室, 専任カウンセラー (50460746)
• Research Collaborator: IKUTA Takashi 聖隷浜松病院, 精神科, 部長
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 未治療期間短縮（DUP) / アットリスク精神状態群（ARMS) / 心理面接 / 自我親和的症状 / 自我違和的症状 / 幻覚 / 前駆症状 / 被害関係念慮

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Japanese version of the PRIME-Screen was conducted in 2015 involving 135 college students, and the number of students with a positive result was 29. Ten of the 29 students who had consented to participate in the study underwent a semi-structured interview, the Baum (tree drawing) test, and the test based on the Landscape Montage Technique, and the results suggested that six of them had consulted the Department of Psychiatry and received drug treatment before. “Ideas of persecution and reference” were ego-dystonic experiences for both groups of students who had not received treatment and those who had received treatment in the Department of Psychiatry as outpatients. Whereas “a sense of self-insufficiency” was an ego-dystonic experience for the non-treatment group, it was an ego-syntonic experience for the outpatient group. “A decrease in the ability for reality-testing” was an ego-syntonic experience.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学