Compliance of Homeless Mentally Ill Persons With Assertive Community Treatment

1993 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 581-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Dixon ◽  
Nancy Friedman ◽  
Anthony Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Assertive Community Treatment ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Mentally Ill Persons ◽  
Homeless Mentally Ill

A decade of research and services for homeless mentally ill persons: Where do we stand?

1991 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 1129-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Dennis ◽  
John C. Buckner ◽  
Frank R. Lipton ◽  
Irene S. Levine
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mentally Ill Persons ◽  
Homeless Mentally Ill

Listening to the homeless: A study of homeless mentally ill persons in Milwaukee.

1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Rosnow ◽  
Toni Shaw ◽  
Clare Stapleton Concord
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mentally Ill Persons ◽  
Homeless Mentally Ill

scholarly journals Setting up an assertive community treatment service

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kent ◽  
Tom Burns
Keyword(s):  
Assertive Community Treatment ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Treatment Service ◽  
Flexible Support ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
Functional Areas ◽  
Key Worker

The last 20 years have witnessed a surge of interest in assertive community treatment (ACT) for the severely mentally ill (Drake & Burns, 1995). ACT aims to help people who would otherwise be in and out of hospital on a ‘revolving door’ basis live in the community and enjoy the best possible quality of life. Services based on the ACT model seek to replace the total support of the hospital with comprehensive, intensive and flexible support in the community, delivered by an individual key worker or core services team. They are organised in a way that optimises continuity of care across different functional areas and across time.

Lessons Learned from Deinstitutionalisation in the US

1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (5) ◽  
pp. 587-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Richard Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mentally Ill Persons ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
Homeless Mentally Ill ◽  
The Us ◽  
Community Programmes ◽  
New Generation

Deinstitutionalisation is at an advanced stage in the US, both in duration, and in reduction in state hospital beds. The new generation of chronically and severely mentally ill persons has posed the greatest problems. They no longer receive life-long hospital admission and thus permanent asylum from the demands of the world. Resistance to treatment and substance abuse are problems. Early proponents of deinstitutionalisation believed it would be cheaper, better, and give the mentally ill their freedom. In reality, good community care does not cost less. While a number of community programmes in the US have been impressive, they have served only a small proportion of the total population of severely mentally ill persons. More freedom has been of benefit for many, but has proved difficult for some patients. Some patients have been deinstitutionalised who cannot be effectively treated in the community. The homeless mentally ill epitomise all these problems.

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