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 Here he outlines evidence for home treatment’s effectiveness and includes as yet unpublished data about the North Birmingham team that has sustained a 50% reduction in admissions over a ten year period; reductions in bed use has been harder to sustain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
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Recent News
- 25. A 2022 Swiss quasi-experimental study based on existing groups – a natural experiment based on geography , to allocate patients to IHT and hospital treatment according to the place of residence ent
- 24 Dutch randomised controlled trial 2022
- 19. Surely, the time has come for psychiatric hospitalization at home. What’s holding us back ?
- 18. Can you treat mentally ill homeless persons in an Intensive Home Treatment Service ?
- 17. My article on Intensive Home Treatment on the Mad in America webzine
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