Community Mental Health Services - Organization & administration
Research News and Information

Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Treatment by psychiatric acute teams - as an alternative to admission in psychiatric acute wards - has been introduced in Norway, based on positive experience in other countries. The effect of establishing such acute teams in Norway has ... Read more...

[A community short-term crisis unit does not reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Due to long-term capacity problems in the psychiatric acute ward, we tried to canalise acute admissions due to life crises (and not serious mental disease) to a new short-term in-patient crisis unit. Our hypothesis was that the opening ... Read more...

Effectiveness of community treatments for heroin and crack cocaine addiction in England: a prospective, in-treatment cohort study.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Addiction to heroin and crack cocaine is debilitating and persistent, but such disorders are treatable. We present the first effectiveness study of the main community interventions for addiction to heroin and crack cocaine in England, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Community Mental Health Services - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• New models of collaboration between criminal justice and mental health systems. 30 Oct 2009
• [Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?] 6 Oct 2009
• [A community short-term crisis unit does not reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards] 6 Oct 2009
• Effectiveness of community treatments for heroin and crack cocaine addiction in England: a prospective, in-treatment cohort study. 29 Sep 2009
• A systematic review of the international published literature relating to quality of institutional care for people with longer term mental health problems. 5 Sep 2009
• Integrated dementia care in The Netherlands: a multiple case study of case management programmes. 30 Aug 2009
• What makes some ACT teams effective? 30 Jul 2009
• Professional opinions of the use of telemedicine in child & adolescent psychiatry. 30 Jul 2009
• Developing an outreach service in adolescent mental health to improve engagement. 30 Jul 2009
• Veterans Affairs Intensive Case Management for older veterans. 30 Jul 2009
• Transforming administrative and clinical practice in a public behavioral health system: an ethnographic assessment of the context of change. 30 Jul 2009
• Incorporating sociocultural beliefs in mental health services in Kwaio, Solomon Islands. 30 Jul 2009
• Whakaora nga moemoea o nga tupuna--living the dreams of the ancestors. Future planning in a Kaupapa Maori CAMHS team. 30 Jul 2009
• "The Sergeant wants to acupuncture me": a personal lens into the introduction of a traditional Eastern therapy to Indigenous Australians. 30 Jul 2009
• The Napranum social and emotional wellbeing week. 30 Jul 2009
• Widening the circle: making Mental Health Review Tribunal hearings accessible in Indigenous, rural and remote settings. 30 Jul 2009
• Working with a community controlled health organization to develop an evidence base for their practice models. 30 Jul 2009
• Child and family inclusive practice: a pilot program in a community adult mental health service. 30 Jul 2009
• The good, the bad, and the severely mentally ill: Official and informal labels as organizational resources in community mental health services. 19 Jul 2009
• The effects of crisis plans for patients with psychotic and bipolar disorders: a randomised controlled trial. 7 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Community Mental Health Services'

Definition: Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive mental health services provided for individuals in the community.

Descriptor UI: D003156

Alternative terms: Community Mental Health Services; Services, Mental Health Community; Services, Community Mental Health; Health Services, Community Mental; Mental Health Services, Community;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.408.307; N02.421.143.183; N02.421.461.232;

History Note: 67

Technical Notes: Public Laws 88-164 & 89-105; DF: COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERV