Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment in Mental Health

Description

Crisis resolution and home treatment teams respond rapidly to people experiencing mental health crises and offer an alternative to hospital admission. They are an increasingly important component of mental health care and are adopted by many health care systems around the world. This practical and pioneering book describes the evidence for the effectiveness of such teams, the principles underpinning them, how to set up and organise them, how patients should be assessed and what types of care the teams should offer. Other topics covered include integration of crisis teams with in-patient, community residential and day care services, the service users' experiences of crisis teams, and responding to diversity in home treatment. This book is essential reading for all policy makers, service managers and mental health workers interested in establishing or operating crisis resolution and home treatment services, as well as for researchers and students seeking to understand this model.

Sonia Johnson is Reader in Social and Community Psychiatry at the Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London, UK. Justin Needle is Research Fellow at the Centre for Allied Health Professions Research, City University, London, UK. Jonathan P. Bindman is Clinical Director of Lambeth Hospital, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Community Psychiatry and Head of the Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.

'... succinctly written in a straightforward style ... a readily accessible and comprehensive introduction to CRHT with plenty of practical advice. For these reasons the increasing numbers of healthcare workers from all professional backgrounds who are now dealing with this new way of working are likely to both enjoy and benefit from reading this book.' Psychological Medicine