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Service innovations: an Australian approach to community care — the Northern Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team

Andrew Carroll, +2 more
- 01 Nov 2001 - 
- Vol. 25, Iss: 11, pp 439-441
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The recent White paper, Modernising Mental Health Services, recommended the provision of home treatment teams for acute mental illness in the UK and such services are not widespread and have been the subject of recent debate.
Abstract
The recent White paper, Modernising Mental Health Services , recommended the provision of home treatment teams for acute mental illness ([Department of Health, 1998][1]). Such services are not widespread in the UK and have been the subject of recent debate ([Smyth et al , 2000][2]). In Australia,

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Crisis resolution and home treatment teams: An evolving model

TL;DR: Key challenges include achieving close integration with the rest of the mental health system and delivering continuity of care and effective therapeutic relationships despite the involvement of multiple workers in each crisis.
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Crisis resolution and home treatment: structure, process, and outcome - a literature review.

TL;DR: How home treatment is described as an essential intervention method in crisis resolution at home in relation to three key characteristics of CRHT, which are being mobile, working in the service user's home, and working together with the person's family and network is explored.
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An investigation of factors associated with psychiatric hospital admission despite the presence of crisis resolution teams.

TL;DR: With the introduction of CRTs, inpatient wards face a significant challenge, as patients who cooperate little with treatment, neglect themselves, or have previously been compulsorily detained are especially likely to be admitted.
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Crisis resolution and intensive home treatment teams

TL;DR: CRTs have the potential considerably to extend the choices available to patients and clinicians in the management of emergencies and have been welcomed by groups representing service users.
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An implementation study of the crisis resolution team model in Norway: are the crisis resolution teams fulfilling their role?

TL;DR: The CRT model has been implemented in Norway without a rapid response, gate-keeping function and 24/7 availability, indicating that the CRTs do not completely fulfil their intended role in the mental health system.
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The home treatment enigma

M G Smyth, +1 more
- 29 Jan 2000 - 
TL;DR: The issues, real and imagined, that are behind the resistance to treatment at home are examined, and one that they and their carers generally prefer, are examined.
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Modernising mental health services.

Max Marshall
- 02 Jan 1999 - 
TL;DR: In Modernising Mental Health Services, the new national mental health strategy for England announced in December, the government lays out detailed plans for reforming general psychiatric services, and places them in the context of its wider NHS reforms.
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