| Schizophrenia is a severe, invalidating psychiatric disease. The treatment and care of patients with this disease takes a big part of the mental health care facilities. Both nationally and internationally there is increasing agreement on the value of well-described interventions for schizophrenic patients (Netherlands Society for Psychiatry, 1999). The most prominent are: maintenance treatment with psychopharmaceuticals according to protocol, psycho-education of patients and their relatives, (assertive) case management and rehabilitation. The latter two elements still have been scarcely developed for young schizophrenic patients. The project 'Compass rose' aims at adding to a social support system a first stage of recognition and treatment, in which transmural care programmes with case management and rehabilitation are included. |
