Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment in Mental Health

by Edited by Sonia Johnson , Justin Needle , Jonathan P. Bindman , Graham Thornicroft

• ISBN13: 9780521678759
• ISBN10: 0521678757
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. x
Foreword	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xx
Introduction and concepts	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
The development of crisis resolution and home treatment teams	p. 9
The crisis resolution team model: recent developments and dissemination	p. 23
The evidence	p. 35
The classic home treatment studies	p. 37
Recent research on crisis resolution teams: findings and limitations	p. 51
Current practice	p. 65
Crisis resolution teams: rationale and core model	p. 67
The crisis resolution team within the community service system	p. 85
Assessment of crises	p. 97
Assessment and management of risk	p. 111
Symptom management	p. 121
Practical psychosocial interventions	p. 137
Working with families and social networks	p. 151
Strategies for promoting engagement and treatment adherence	p. 165
Mixed blessings: service user experience of crisis teams	p. 177
Early discharge and joint working between crisis teams and hospital services	p. 187
Working with repeat users of crisis resolution services	p. 197
Responding to diversity in home treatment	p. 205
Coercion and compulsion in crisis resolution teams	p. 223
Variations and enhancements	p. 233
Integration of the crisis resolution function within community mental health teams	p. 235
Home treatment and 'hospitality' within a comprehensive community mental health centre	p. 251
Crisis resolution teams and older people	p. 267
Integrating day treatment and crisis resolution teams	p. 275
Integrating crisis residential care and crisis resolution teams	p. 283
Developing a local service	p. 293
Planning and implementing a local service	p. 295
Recruiting, training and retaining an effective crisis team	p. 307
Operational management of crisis resolution teams	p. 319
Index	p. 327
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