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Running an assertive community treatment team

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Tom Burns  and
Louise Guest
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In the 1960s, most people with severe mental illness were treated in large mental hospitals, receiving all their care under one roof, ensuring its continuity and accountability. Deinstitutionalisation resulted in discharge into the community, where care was fragmented between many agencies, making continuity and accountability very difficult. Countless individual programs were developed with few links between them. Not surprisingly, deinstitutionalised patients, in an unfamiliar environment and with poor coping skills to navigate services, did not receive the care they needed.

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Research Article
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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 5 , Issue 5 , September 1999 , pp. 348 - 356
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1999 

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