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How Many Assertive Community Treatment Teams Do We Need?

Author(s) -

Gary S. Cuddeback,

J Morrissey,

Piper Meyer-Kalos

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

psychiatric services

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.517

H-Index - 145

eISSN - 1557-9700

pISSN - 1075-2730

DOI - 10.1176/ps.2006.57.12.1803

Subject(s) - assertive community treatment , mental illness , population , psychiatry , medicine , assertiveness , psychology , family medicine , gerontology , mental health , environmental health , social psychology

Assertive community treatment (ACT) reduces hospitalizations for persons with severe mental illness. However, not everyone who needs ACT receives it. Without empirical guidelines for ACT planning, communities are likely to underestimate or overestimate the number of teams they need; thus the capacity of the programs will not meet current needs. In this study, administrative data were used to develop empirical estimates for the number of required ACT teams. These estimates were then used to examine current conceptual guidelines for developing the number of ACT teams that communities need.

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