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Community mental health teams : a guide to current practices / Tom Burns.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford medical publicationsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1423701038
  • 9781423701033
  • 0198529996
  • 9780198529996
  • 9786611015831
  • 6611015833
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Community mental health teams.DDC classification:
  • 362.12 22
LOC classification:
  • RA790.6 .B87 2004eb
NLM classification:
  • 2004 F-096
  • WM 30
Online resources:
Contents:
The origins of community psychiatry -- Modern multidisciplinary mental health working -- Generic adult CMHTs -- Assertive outreach teams -- Early intervention teams -- Crisis resolution and home treatment teams -- Highly specialized teams -- The wider context and the research development agenda.
Summary: Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) have evolved over the last 30-40 years to serve patients with mental illnesses who would previously have been treated in large mental hospitals. This is the first book to provide practical advice for those working within these teams. It addresses the needs of the individual specialists within the CMHT, and provides clinical advice based on what has been seen to work. Written by a leading authority in this field, the book willbecome the standard text for all those specialists working within and close to community mental health teams.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index.

The origins of community psychiatry -- Modern multidisciplinary mental health working -- Generic adult CMHTs -- Assertive outreach teams -- Early intervention teams -- Crisis resolution and home treatment teams -- Highly specialized teams -- The wider context and the research development agenda.

Print version record.

Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) have evolved over the last 30-40 years to serve patients with mental illnesses who would previously have been treated in large mental hospitals. This is the first book to provide practical advice for those working within these teams. It addresses the needs of the individual specialists within the CMHT, and provides clinical advice based on what has been seen to work. Written by a leading authority in this field, the book willbecome the standard text for all those specialists working within and close to community mental health teams.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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