Assertive Community Treatment in the Netherlands

__Introduction: __ Assertive Community Treatment is a model for care and treatment of patients with the most severe mental illness in the community. Key principles of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) are: integration of services, low patient–staff ratio, locus of contact in the community, medication management, focus on everyday problems in living, assertive outreach, and time unlimited services. ACT is the most extensively studied care delivery model for people with severe mental illness (SMI) and widely implemented in- and outside the US. Despite the extensive number of studies, there are... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Vugt, M.D. (Maaike) van
Dokumenttyp: doctoralThesis
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Schlagwörter: Assertive Community Treatment / model fidelity / severe mental illness / outcome assessment / evidence-based practice / schizophrenia
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29199515
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Link(s) : http://repub.eur.nl/pub/78111