Home treatment for acute mental disorders an alternative to hospitalization

• Main Author: Heath, David S. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2005
• Subjects: Home Care Services > therapy; Mental Disorders > therapy; Crisis Intervention > methods; Mobile Health Units
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In the U.S., when a patient is in need of rigorous psychiatric care, the first step is hospitalization. However, elsewhere in the world, psychiatric home treatment is proposed as an alternative. Model programs in Canada and the United Kingdom are publicly administered by community health agencies or...

Table of Contents:

• Review of research on mobile crisis home treatment
• Why mobile crisis home treatment? How does it fit with mental health systems?
• Descriptions of seven mobile crisis home treatment teams
• Key elements and principles of mobile crisis home treatment
• How to set up and operate a mobile crisis home treatment service
• Daily program operation
• Mobile crisis home treatment of specific mental disorders: Part I
• Mobile crisis home treatment of specific mental disorders: Part II.