Community Mental Health Services
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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...

[First episode of psychosis intensive early intervention programme versus standard treatment--secondary publication]

3 Oct 2009 A total of 547 patients with a first episode of psychosis were randomised to two years of intensive early intervention programme (OPUS) versus standard treatment. OPUS treatment consisted of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) with manuals for ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Community Mental Health Services'

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
• [More and better evaluations in health care] 6 Oct 2009
• [First episode of psychosis intensive early intervention programme versus standard treatment--secondary publication] 3 Oct 2009
• Enhancing multiyear guideline concordance for bipolar disorder through collaborative care. 29 Sep 2009
• The influence of neighborhood environment on treatment continuity and rehospitalization in dually diagnosed patients discharged from acute inpatient care. 29 Sep 2009
• Methodological challenges in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards: findings from a pilot patient preference RCT. 29 Sep 2009
• Effectiveness of community treatments for heroin and crack cocaine addiction in England: a prospective, in-treatment cohort study. 29 Sep 2009
• Implementing evidence-based practice in community mental health agencies: a multiple stakeholder analysis. 15 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
• Application of a standardized assessment methodology within the context of an evidence-based treatment for substance abuse and its associated problems. 30 Aug 2009
• Integrated dementia care in The Netherlands: a multiple case study of case management programmes. 30 Aug 2009
• Participatory research in systems of care for children's mental health. 30 Aug 2009
• Long-term benefits of short-term quality improvement interventions for depressed youths in primary care. Aug 2009
• What makes some ACT teams effective? 30 Jul 2009
• State mental health policy: implementation of computerized medication prescribing algorithms in a community mental health system. 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
• Does the use of a physical health assessment tool improve the physical health of clients of a community mental health team? 30 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