3. Intensive Home Treatment ( called CRHT in this file) Guide Sainsbury Centre 2006

This  book draws on the experiences of the Sainsbury Centre in delivering training and practice development to intensive home treatment teams  over five  years .It will be of interest to all those involved in the delivery of mental health services; in particular, those wanting to develop home treatment teams, but also those involved in the planning and modernisation of future mental health services. It cover a wide area including the role of values in a crisis; risk management; the social systems approach; facilitating early discharge from hospital; and, lastly, the process of crisis resolution using a case study. International expert Dr John Hoult wrote the first chapter ” Setting the scene”. Here he outlines evidence for home treatment’s effectiveness and includes as yet unpublished data about the North Birmingham team that has sustained a 50% reduction in admissions over a ten year period; reductions in bed use has been harder to sustain Crisis_resolution_and_home_treatment_guide