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Acute mental health care in the community : intensive home treatment / edited by Neil Brimblecombe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Whurr, 2001.Description: x, 217p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781861561893 (pbk.) :
  • 186156189X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.240941 BRI
LOC classification:
  • RC439.5
Contents:
Introduction--1. Community care and the development of intensive home treatment services--2. Intensive home treatment services: the current position in the UK--3. Researching services providing IHT as an alternative to admission--4. Assessment in crises/home treatment services--5. \'With a slightly lighter heart. . .\' Mental health act assessments: Does a home treatment team make a difference?---6. Intensive home treatment for individuals with suicidal ideation--7. The radical possibilities of home treatment: postpsychiatry in action--8. Providing intensive home treatment: inter-agency and inter-professional issues--9. Developing intensive home treatment services: problems and issues.
Summary: This text focuses on a key aspect of community mental health care - intensive home treatment (IHT). It examines the issues surrounding the provision of treatment to individuals as an alternative to psychiatric admission.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 362.240941 BRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 200440
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 362.240941 BRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 200438

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction--1. Community care and the development of intensive home treatment services--2. Intensive home treatment services: the current position in the UK--3. Researching services providing IHT as an alternative to admission--4. Assessment in crises/home treatment services--5. \'With a slightly lighter heart. . .\' Mental health act assessments: Does a home treatment team make a difference?---6. Intensive home treatment for individuals with suicidal ideation--7. The radical possibilities of home treatment: postpsychiatry in action--8. Providing intensive home treatment: inter-agency and inter-professional issues--9. Developing intensive home treatment services: problems and issues.

This text focuses on a key aspect of community mental health care - intensive home treatment (IHT). It examines the issues surrounding the provision of treatment to individuals as an alternative to psychiatric admission.

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