Acute mental health care in the community : intensive home treatment / edited by Neil Brimblecombe.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Whurr, 2001.Description: x, 217p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781861561893 (pbk.) :
- 186156189X (pbk.)
- 362.240941 BRI
- RC439.5
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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.