Assertive Community Treatment in the Netherlands Assertive Community Treatment in Nederland
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Assertive community treatment for elderly people with severe mental illness
BACKGROUND Adults aged 65 and older with severe mental illnesses are a growing segment of the Dutch population. Some of them have a range of serious problems and are also difficult to engage. While assertive community treatment is a common model for treating difficult to engage severe mental illnesses patients, no special form of it is available for the elderly. A special assertive community tr...
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This study compared experts' views on the critical ingredients of assertive community treatment and intensive case management. Twenty experts on assertive community treatment and 22 experts on intensive case management rated the importance of 40 elements common to each treatment approach. The assertive community treatment experts gave higher importance ratings than the intensive case management...
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introduced assertive community treatment (assertive outreach) teams in 1999 as part of provision of comprehensive services for the promotion and treatment of mental health. A Cochrane review in 1998 concluded that assertive community treatment was a clinically effective approach to managing the care of people with a severe mental illness in the community. Over the years, researchers have debate...
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OBJECTIVE This article reviews the evidence for the effectiveness of community-based services for rural areas, specifically assertive community treatment and intensive case management. Service delivery to persons with severe mental illness in rural areas is challenged by low population densities, limited services, and shortages of professionals. METHODS A comprehensive literature search ident...
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