Joe A. Buckby

TL;DR: The CAARMS instrument provides a useful platform for monitoring sub threshold psychotic symptoms for worsening into full-threshold psychotic disorder and has good to excellent reliability.

TL;DR: It is suggested that infrequent psychotic-like experiences are unlikely to be a specific risk factor for onset of a psychotic disorder in community samples, and may represent expressions of underlying vulnerability to psychotic disorder, but Magical Thinking may be a normal personality variant.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the predictive validity of the UHR criteria in a clinical population and found that the criteria significantly predicted onset of psychotic disorder within 2 years, and the transition rate was much lower than in initial cohorts (over 40%).

TL;DR: Although young help-seekers meeting certain UHR criteria are at greater risk of psychotic disorder than those who do not meet them, caution is needed in their management, since a high transition rate can no longer be assumed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the prevalence of psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) in a non-psychotic clinical sample was determined, and three subtypes of PLEs were identified: Bizarre Experiences, Persecutory Ideas and Magical Thinking.