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OASIS

OASIS (Outreach and Support Intervention Services) is an early intervention program for the treatment of psychosis. Our patients are young adults and older adolescents who are experiencing their first psychotic episode. Our clinic is located at Carr Mill Mall in Carrboro, NC.

STEP

STEP (Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program) is a clinical treatment program for those who have a diagnosed psychotic disorder, most typically schizophrenia. We have an inpatient unit at the UNC Neurosciences Hospital and two outpatient clinics, one at the UNC Neurosciences Hospital and one at Carr Mill Mall in Carrboro, NC.

STEP Research Clinic at the North Carolina Psychiatric Research Center

The STEP Research Clinic focuses on maximizing recovery for those living with serious mental illness through state-of-the-art clinical care, and research studies to advance knowledge and improve treatment options.

Brushes with Life

Brushes with Life: Art, Artists, and Mental Illness is a creative arts program for people in treatment at OASIS and STEP; members of Club Nova, a local clubhouse for persons with mental illness; and other select community programs in the Chapel Hill area.

STEP

Move forward with your recovery.

STEP is an outpatient clinic located in Carrboro, North Carolina that helps people and families dealing with serious mental illness make strides towards health and recovery.

Our team of mental health professionals and graduate students from UNC-Chapel Hill―psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, clinical social workers, psychologists, nurses, and others―specialize in the treatment of schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, depression, and other serious mental illnesses with psychotic symptoms.

Using research-based, best-practice clinical skills, we assist our clients with their recovery process. We provide illness education and medication management, and help our clients come up with personal coping and relapse prevention strategies.

If you’d like to find out more about the STEP clinic and the services we offer, or want to make an appointment with a member of our clinical staff, contact us at 919.942.7363.


View a list of STEP staff

Go to the 18th Annual STEP Symposium Page

Go to the 17th Annual STEP Symposium Page

Myths View all myths

Schizophrenia means having multiple personalities.

People with schizophrenia believe two opposing views of something at the same time (ex. "I am schizophrenic on that issue.").

Despite the meaning of the Greek words from which the name was derived that translate as "split mind," schizophrenia is not a case of multiple personalities (dissociative identify disorder), nor is it the state of thinking two opposite things at once. The key features of the illness were originally thought to be the split from reality people experience when they believe their delusions or perceive hallucinations.