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Assertive community treatment and associations with delinquency

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2016
This article draws on a prospective longitudinal study in which Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model fidelity and patient outcomes were assessed in twenty outpatient treatment teams. 530 severely mentally ill patients participated in the study. Delinquency outcomes were assessed three times during a two-year follow-up period.
van Vugt, Maaike D., Kroon, Hans, Delespaul, Philippe A. E. G., Mulder, Cornelis L.   +3 more
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Rural Assertive Community Treatment and Telepsychiatry

Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2018
Assertive community treatment (ACT) is an evidence-based treatment for patients with severe and persistent mental illness. ACT has been shown to reduce inpatient hospitalization and is increasingly being used as a mainstay of evidence-based psychiatric practice for these clinical populations.
Charlie L, Swanson, Robert L, Trestman
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Implementing assertive community treatment teams

Psychiatric Services, 1995
The Connecticut Department of Mental Health began creating assertive community treatment teams in 1987. The authors describe the approach taken by the department in defining the assertive community treatment model, in creating new assertive community treatment teams, and in monitoring the creation and functioning of these teams to ensure that fidelity ...
S M, Essock, N, Kontos
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Financing Assertive Community Treatment

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 1997
Assertive community treatment (ACT) is a widely-used intervention for the most severely impaired persons with mental illness. Because it differs from traditional treatment approaches in its philosophy, its organization, and in the clients it serves, financing strategies that are appropriate for standard services may not be optimal for ACT.
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Dissemination of assertive community treatment programs

Psychiatric Services, 1995
The study sought to estimate the number of programs in the U.S. for severely mentally ill adults that used the assertive community treatment model and to describe variations in characteristics of the intervention across programs.Assertive community treatment programs identified by state mental health authorities completed a 12-item survey.
P A, Deci, A B, Santos, D W, Hiott, S, Schoenwald, J K, Dias   +4 more
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Therapeutic Agents of Assertive Community Treatment

Psychiatric Quarterly, 1999
The goal of this study was to learn how assertive community treatment (ACT) contributes to the improvement of those with serious mental illness in order to contribute to the growing clinical literature regarding the therapeutic agents of ACT teams. Methods included reviewing the case records of three ACT clients who have improved significantly, as well
M, Chinman, M, Allende, P, Bailey, J, Maust, L, Davidson   +4 more
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Integrating Primary Care Into Assertive Community Treatment

Psychiatric Services, 2022
This program evaluation examined integration of primary care nurse practitioners into assertive community treatment (ACT).From January to June 2019, primary care nurse practitioners in a postgraduate fellowship program were assigned to five ACT teams (N=305 participants). Focus groups explored staff members' and participants' experiences.
Jeanie, Tse, Jason E, Cheng, Edward, Tabasky, Emily, Kingman, Drew, LaStella, Gertie, Quitangon, David, Woodlock   +6 more
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The Role of Assertive Community Treatment in the Treatment of People With Borderline Personality Disorder

American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 2009
Marcela Horvitz-Lennon
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Ethics of assertive outreach (assertive community treatment teams)

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2002
Assertive outreach, also known as assertive community treatment, is a well established service model in several countries for people with severe and enduring mental health problems who do no engage with psychiatric services. However, it has been criticized for being coercive and paternalistic.
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Assertive community treatment in the Netherlands: a randomized controlled trial

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2007
Objective:  Assertive community treatment is rapidly implemented by many European mental health services, but recently the evidence base has been questioned. Positive results of randomized trials in the USA were not replicated in the UK. The question is whether the UK findings are representative for other European countries with modern mental health ...
Sytema, S., Wunderink, L., Bloemers, W., Roorda, L., Wiersma, D.   +4 more
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