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assertive community treatment
assertive community treatment Assertive community treatment is an intensive community-based mental health approach developed in the context of deinstitutionalisation that provides frequent, practical support in everyday settings and over extended service hours.
Assertive community treatment is an intensive community-based mental health approach developed in the context of deinstitutionalisation that provides frequent, practical support in everyday settings and over extended service hours. In the reviewed literature, it was used for people with serious and persistent mental illness and was associated with lower emergency department use and better social or psychosocial functioning, although effects on symptoms were more limited.