Assertive Community Treatment
Ten year outcomes of participants in the REACT (Randomised Evaluation of Assertive Community Treatment in North London) study
... of Assertive Community Treatment in North London (REACT) study assessed outcomes for 251 people ran- domly assigned to receive either ACT or standard case management from community mental ...
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Hospitalization of high and low inpatient service users before and after enrollment into Assertive Community Treatment teams: a naturalistic observational study
... The Norwegian teams’ fidelity to the ACT model was assessed using the Tool for Measurement of Assertive Community Treatment (TMACT) [8]. The TMACT comprises 47 items, giving six subscales; ...
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British ColumBia Program StandardS for assertive Community treatment (act) teams
... Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a self-contained mental health program made up of a multidisciplinary mental health staff, including peer support specialists, who work as a team to provide the ...
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Identifying barriers to mental health system improvements: an examination of community participation in assertive community treatment programs
... of community-based men- tal health services are to be ...of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) programs, a second iteration of program standards has recently been developed in Ontario, Canada ...
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Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and ACT-like services : associations with primary care, general medical services, and rural areas
... in Community Living model, which was later renamed the Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT, also known as ACT), over 30 years ago in Wisconsin (Stein and Test ...
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Assertive Community Treatment For People With Alcohol Dependence : A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
... Assertive community treatment (ACT) is a model of case management which has been shown to be effective in improving engagement and retaining those with serious mental illness and those with alcohol ...
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Assertive Community Treatment for alcohol dependence (ACTAD): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... on treatment of alcohol dependence rather than accompanying pro- ...blems. Assertive Community Treatment therefore offers a potential advantages for engaging patients in treat- ment, ...
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Enhancing assertive community treatment with cognitive behavioral social skills training for schizophrenia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams, commonly available to persons with schizophrenia in public sector community practice settings, results in better consumer ...
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The Clinical Strategies Implementation Scale Revised (CSI R) Fidelity Assessment of Resource Group Assertive Community Treatment
... own treatment goals, nominates those to be included in the Resource Group, and is trained by the case manager to be, if possible, the leader of the Resource Group, all seem to be crucial factors in the empowerment ...
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Assertive community treatment for elderly people with severe mental illness
... of assertive community treatment for the elderly with those of care as ...for treatment and at least four suspected problems with functioning (addiction, ...
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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in a population served by assertive community treatment teams: a retrospective chart review
... Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed to determine the MetS prevalence and antipsychotic prescribing patterns for patients followed by 2 assertive community treatment teams (ACTTs; n = ...
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Evaluation of the Forensic Assertive Community Treatment Program
... ______________________________________________________________________________ Page 5 of 86 These forensic features were selected based on local experience with this population and what the literature suggested were ...
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Hospitalisation of severely mentally ill patients with and without problematic substance use before and during Assertive Community Treatment: an observational cohort study
... whereas Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) generally reduces hospitalisation in patients with severe mental illness and high inpatient service ...
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Model fidelity and team members’ experiences of assertive community treatment in Norway: a sequential mixed-methods study
... Assertive community treatment (ACT) was developed in the 1970s as a “hospital without walls” to achieve bet- ter functioning in the community for people with severe mental illness ...
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Engagement in assertive community treatment as experienced by recovering clients with severe mental illness and concurrent substance use
... Eleven participants (nine men and two women) aged 27–63 years (mean, 39 years) were included in the study (Table 1). The duration of ACT was 14–30 months (mean, 22 months) at the time of the first inter- view. Most ...
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Fifteen month follow up of an assertive community treatment program for chronic patients with mental illness
... The ACT case-management program included a team leader and a psychiatrist working within a multidisciplin- ary team approach involving team meetings, registration information, 24 h availability, crisis intervention ...
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Changes in individual needs for care and quality of life in Assertive Community Treatment patients: an observational study
... the treatment of psychotic symptoms – than a patient in symptomatic remission, who may have needs with respect to daytime activities, company and intimate ...
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The effect of youth assertive community treatment: a systematic PRISMA review
... home-based treatment (obliga- tory), (b) small caseload (size < 10), (c) patients difficult to reach, (d) transition (from clinic to home) case manage- ment, (e) early intervention, (f) psychiatric assessment ...
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Washington State Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) Program Standards
... the treatment plan, rather than in a cross-disciplinary, integrated fashion, which also serves to actively involve the consumer in their own assessment and ...
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The effectiveness of assertive community treatment for elderly patients with severe mental illness: a randomized controlled trial
... of treatment as usual ...psychiatric treatment were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group (32 to ACT for elderly patients and 30 to ...first treatment contact within 3 months, the ...
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