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Are assertive community treatment and recovery compatible? Commentary on "ACT and recovery: integrating evidence-based practice and recovery orientation on assertive community treatment teams
- Authors:
- DRAKE Robert E., DEEGAN Patricia E.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 44(1), February 2008, pp.75-77.
- Publisher:
- Springer
On commenting on a previous article the articles highlight the importance of the recovery-orientation in the assertive community treatment model.
Should we adopt the Dutch version of ACT? Commentary on "FACT a Dutch version of ACT"
- Authors:
- BOND Gary R., DRAKE Robert E.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 43(4), August 2007, pp.435-438.
- Publisher:
- Springer
The authors comments on FACT, a Dutch version of assertive community treatment. They look at whether the model could be adopted in the United States, or whether it is solely suited to the Netherlands due to specific features of the mental health system.
Safehouse
- Author:
- GOULD Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 7.2.02, 2002, p.16.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Visits a psychiatric unit which offers a model for the future.
Chronicity in mental disorders: evolution of a concept
- Author:
- JIMENEZ Mary Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Social Casework, 69(10), December 1988, pp.627-633.
- Publisher:
- Alliance for Children and Families
Suggests that belief in chronicity is a social construction that developed as psychiatry moved towards a scientific model of mental disorder in the early twentieth century.
A model project for families of the chronically mentally ill
- Authors:
- FERRIS P.A., MARSHALL C.A.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 32(2), 1987, pp.110-114.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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Mental health professional experiences of the flexible assertive community treatment model: a grounded theory study
- Authors:
- LEXEN Annika, SVENSSON Bengt
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 25(4), 2016, pp.379-384.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Background: Despite the lack of evidence for effectiveness of the Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (Flexible ACT), the model is considered feasible and is well received by mental health professionals. No current studies have adequately examined mental health professional experiences of working with Flexible ACT. Aims: The aim of this study was to explore mental health professional experiences of working with the Flexible ACT model compared with standard care. Method: The study was guided by grounded theory and based on the interviews with 19 theoretically chosen mental health professionals in Swedish urban areas primarily working with consumers with psychosis, who had worked with the Flexible ACT model for at least 6 months. Results: The analysis resulted in the core category: “Flexible ACT and the shared caseload create a common action space” and three main categories: (1) “Flexible ACT fills the need for a systematic approach to crisis intervention”; (2) “Flexible ACT has advantages in the psychosocial working environment”; and (3) “Flexible ACT increases the quality of care”. Conclusions: Mental health professionals may benefit from working with the Flexible ACT model through decreased job-strain and stress, increased feeling of being in control over their work situation, and experiences of providing higher quality of care. (Publisher abstract)
ACT and recovery: integrating evidence-based practice and recovery orientation on Assertive Community Treatment Teams
- Authors:
- SALYERS Michelle P., TSEMBERIS Sam
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 43(6), December 2007, pp.619-641.
- Publisher:
- Springer
The authors examine whether Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) can successfully incorporate a recovery-oriented approach while continuing to retain program fidelity. The effectiveness of ACT as an evidence-based practice is reviewed, the philosophical similarities and differences between ACT and recovery are explored, and the way in which fidelity standards, a widely used indicator of how ACT teams operate, support or interfere with the adoption of a recovery-oriented practice is examined. Recommendations on how best to incorporate a recovery orientation into existing ACT teams are also provided.
FACT: a Dutch version of ACT
- Author:
- van VELDHUIZEN J. Remmers
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 43(4), August 2007, pp.421-433.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a well-defined service delivery model for the care and treatment of the most severely mentally ill in the community. The authors describe an adapted Dutch version named ‘Function’ ACT or FACT. In a FACT team, ACT is one of the functions that the team can perform. For more stable long-term patients FACT provides coordinated multidisciplinary treatment and care by individual case management. Unstable patients at risk of relapse are followed with assertive outreach care by the same team, working with a shared caseload for this subgroup. This article describes the service model and everyday practice in FACT, and its advantage compared with standard ACT for the Netherlands.
Antonovsky revisited - implications for mental health promotion practice
- Authors:
- MORRISON Ian, CLIFT Stephen M.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 9(2), May 2007, pp.36-46.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article assesses the validity of Antonovsky's (1996) assertion that health promotion should use the salutogenic model of health to guide practice, by drawing on the results of an evaluation of s supported further education programme for people with long-term mental health needs. Three consecutive cohorts of further education (FE) students with long term mental health diagnosis were assessed before and after participation, using Antonovsky's (1987) short form Sense of Coherence questionnaire (SOC-13). The sub-components of the Sense of Coherence programme were comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness. Students with SOC13 scores 52 and above at entry showed no significant change. However, students with entry SOC13 scores below 52 made statistically significant positive gains in their exit scores. A causation model was developed from qualitative evidence from students' accounts of participation in the programme. The model suggests that peer support is an important factor in the success of the programme and that the activity of learning reduced symptoms and raised positive affect. The results support Antonovsky's salutogenic health perspective for mental health promotion staff and allied professionals, and highlighted the need for mental health professionals to pay attention to the pathogenic and aslutogenic paradigms for under standing the health needs of people with long term mental health needs.
An uncaring approach?
- Authors:
- STICKLEY Theodore, MASTERSON Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2003, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Looks at the merits and criticisms of the Care Programme Approach.