IEPA members include clinicians, researchers, administrators, policy makers, and individuals with an interest in the field of early psychosis.

Our Aims:

• To enhance awareness of early psychosis and the process of recovery.
• To provide a network for international communication and collaboration between stakeholders, including mental health professionals, consumers and their families, and policy makers.
• To contribute to the development of knowledge about early psychosis and its treatment.
• To facilitate research, including multi-centre trials, cross-cultural research, and long-term studies.
• To facilitate the development and promotion of best practice in identifying early psychosis, and providing optimal treatment.
• To improve services to young people with emerging psychosis, and their families, through encouragement of appropriate mental health policies.
• To improve access to information on the identification and treatment of early psychosis.
• To arrange conferences and professional meetings on an international level that focus on the early phase of psychotic disorders.
• To provide links to existing educational resources and training options.