Assertive Outreach in Mental Health: A Manual for Practitioners
Book Details
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Published : 2002
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 356
- Category :
Counselling - Catalogue No : 17132
- ISBN 13 : 9780198516156
- ISBN 10 : 0198516150
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Assertive outreach is a treatment for the severely mentally ill in the community. It involves taking services to the patients rather than requiring them to attend hospitals and clinics. The model is one of a high staff-to-patient ratio offering comprehensive health and social care.
About the Author(s)
Tom Burns is Professor of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University. From the late 1980s he has conducted research, in addition his clinical and teaching work, and has produced nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles. His work into Assertive Community Treatment care for severe psychosis, home based care for general psychiatry, and services to help patients with schizophrenia return to work, has been internationally important. He is currently researching a number of aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, especially those which are experienced as unequal or coercive.
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