How common deficits in perception and in perceptual processing contribute to vulnerability to the development of the schizophrenia spectrum disorders in children and adolescents with a focus on how these deficits cause behaviors that generate abusive coercive criticism and high expressed emotion in these childrens' caregivers.
Development of a clinical method for enabling children and adolescents to reveal the closely guarded psychotic intrusions into consciousness. Early diagnosis and cognitive treatment of the early developing psychoses by open dialogue, non-hierarchical, family group meetings with development of e-therapists and lay open dialogue teams.
Cognitive restructuring of psychotic experience by use of a dream breakthrough (DrBT) understanding of hallucinations based on MEG scan preliminary studies of thalamo cortical dysrhythmias. Salience, negative self-evaluation and psychotophobia in the children are reduced as is coercive criticism and high expressed emotion in care givers.