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The home treatment team accreditation program of the Royal College of Psychiatrists College Centre for Quality  was first mentioned in post # 13. It has 

guidance-on-fidelity-for-crisis-services-ukThis 2006 document developed by NIMHE-National Institute of Mental Health for England and the Department of Health has some useful ideas that would apply to

Assertive Community Treatment Teams have recognized program standards by which fidelity to the model can be judged. As far as I am aware , nothing

This publication draws on  research and experience in the North Birmingham area  West Midlands CRHT Network expanded guidelines It is a useful practical publication about developing  crisis

Even though intensive home treatment  is  specifically designed to replace inpatient treatment ,there is almost no discussion -and certainly no research-about how exactly how it works in

One of the key elements  of intensive home treatment is social systems intervention. This is necessary because many crises that lead to admission ( called the

” Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment in Mental Health” edited by Sonia Johnson, Justin Needle, Jonathan P. Bindman and Graham Thornicroft , published in 2008

This 2004 Sainsbury Centre report pulls together some of the lessons learned from a number of sites across England in setting up assertive outreach (

This 2003 report from the Northern Centre for Mental Health in England describes the growing evidence that the benefits of intensive home treatment are not