Team Structures in Community Mental Health

Book section

Authors: Burns, T

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Host title: Principles of Social Psychiatry: Second Edition
• Pages: 385-396
• Publication date: 2010-03-28
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470684214.ch29
• ISBN: 9780470697139
• Keywords: National and international variation in staffing of CMHTs - with clinical psychology and occupational therapy; Generic CMHTs characteristics; Community mental health teams (CMHTS); Social interventions - team structures in community mental health; Isolated trials of early community mental health services; Team approach to community mental health care - severe or enduring disorders being inevitable; CMHT, characterized by its multidisciplinary nature; Linking of need for social interventions with psychiatric treatment - obvious with deinstitutionalization; Case management (CM) and assertive community treatment (ACT); Associations between service components, cluster analysis and hospitalization - in regression analysis