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Providing early intervention services for the primary care sector: the PMHT approach
Author(s) -
McGovern A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1034/j.1600-0447.106.s413.1_117.x
Subject(s) - mental health , intervention (counseling) , government (linguistics) , primary care , early psychosis , psychosis , population , service delivery framework , medicine , psychiatry , nursing , service (business) , psychology , family medicine , environmental health , business , linguistics , philosophy , marketing
Primary Mental Health Teams are a state‐wide initiative of the government of Victoria to address identified gaps in mental health service delivery namely early intervention for psychosis and mental health services for high prevalence disorders. This poster will outline this dynamic community based approach to supporting and enhancing services for clients with mental health issues that are currently provided by the primary care sector. Specifically, the poster will focus on the development of a local cross sectorial approach to early psychosis with the dual aims of decreasing the duration of untreated psychosis and adopting best practice guidelines for improved outcomes for this high risk population.