STEP Learning Collaborative: Early Psychosis Foundations Training

The Early Psychosis Foundations Training provides clinicians with a practical, evidence-based foundation for working with young individuals experiencing schizophrenia spectrum disorders. The training focuses on how early psychosis commonly presents in real-world clinical settings and how clinicians can orient their work, especially in early sessions, to support engagement, stabilization, and recovery.

Content integrates essential background knowledge with applied clinical decision-making. Participants will review core features of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, the importance of early detection and engagement, and the evidence base for coordinated specialty care (CSC). Using a phase-based framework and clinical vignette, the training highlights what clinicians can prioritize when individuals and families first present for care and how treatment goals evolve over time.

The Foundations Training also prepares participants for the ongoing STEP-LC Early Psychosis ECHO by introducing the consultation format, expectations for participation, and how foundational concepts will be revisited and deepened through monthly case discussions.

Foundations Training: Content Overview

A. Foundations of Schizophrenia and Early Psychosis

B. STEP Learning Collaborative: Transforming Access and Care in Connecticut

C. Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC): Evidence and Framework

D. Phase-Based Early Psychosis Care: What to Do in Early Sessions

E. Orientation to the STEP-LC Early Psychosis ECHO

Continuing Education Information:

1.0 Yale CME / equivalent credit will be awarded for each hour of synchronous session attended. If you are requesting CMEs, please see the linked PDF to ensure that you have created a YaleCloud CME account and paired your mobile phone, prior to the first session. A text code will be made available at the end of each session for you to submit your attendance to the Yale CME texting attendance number: 203-442-9435.