Special Section on Assertive Community Treatment: An Introduction

摘要: No psychosocial intervention has influenced current community mental health care more than assertive cornmunity treatment. During the early years of deinstitutionalization, when many people with severe illness failed to achieve stability in and cycled out hospitals, a variety communitybased interventions evolved. By far most carefully defined, well documented, successful these was developed Madison, Wisconsin, where group clinicians researchers established an intensive program (1) that since become known as The central idea treatment community-based team would provide full range medical, psychosocial, rehabilitative services, analogous hospital, prevent hospitalization ofclients by maximizing their skills supports community. model assumed bringing patient obviate problem missed appointments learned naturalistic setting, rather be likely persist.