Is assertive community treatment coercive?

Is assertive community treatment coercive?

Background Assertive community treatment (ACT) has become one of the cornerstones of care for people with serious mental illnesses. ACT is usually conceptualized as incorporating a multidisciplinary team approach, active and persistent attempts to engage clients, direct provision of comprehensive health and social care, and in-vivo and out-of-hours working. In addition, the service is ongoing, ...

Assertive Community Treatment

Client outcomes are those aspects of clients' lives that we seek to improve or to manage successfully through the delivery of mental health services. Medications help clients manage their symptoms. Supported employment programs help clients find work in the community. Dual diagnosis groups help clients reduce their dependence on alcohol and illicit drugs. Relapse prevention programs help client...

Forensic Assertive community treAtment: updAting

Forensic assertive community treatment (FACT) is an adaptation of the traditional assertive community treatment (ACT) model for people with serious mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system (Lamberti et al., 2004). ACT is a psychosocial intervention that was developed for people with severe mental illness (a subset of serious mental illness, marked by a higher degree of f...

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What is the future of assertive community treatment?

Although the trend towards community care for psychiatric patients has been apparent now for over fifty years, we still do not have a satisfactory model of community care that all can aim for as the target to be achieved. To an outsider this may seem curious. It seems fairly obvious that hospitals are necessary for patients when they are severely ill, that good care given outside hospital when ...