Home Treatment for Acute Mental Disorders : An Alternative to Hospitalization

ISBN-13: 9780415934084 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 328 str.

David Heath

Opis

Providing a review of the literature on home care and describes working programs around the world, this volume reviews treatment plans for different disorders with case illustrations, explains the administration of a PHC program and offers guidelines to case workers.

Spis treści

Part 1: Review of Research and Discussion of Mental Health Systems. Introduction. Review of Research on Mobile Crisis Home Treatment. Why Mobile Crisis Home Treatment; How Does it Fit in with Mental Health Systems? Part 2: Examples of Mobile Crisis Home Treatment Services: How to Set Up and Operate a Mobile Crisis Home Treatment Service. Mobile Crisis Home Treatment Services in Three Countries: Seven Site Visits. Key Elements and Principles of Mobile Crisis Home Treatment. How to Set Up and Operate a Mobile Crisis Home Treatment Service. Daily Program Operations. Mobile Crisis Home Treatment of Specific Mental Disorders, part 1. Mobile Crisis Home Treatment of Specific Mental Disorders, part 2.

O autorze

David S. Heath, MB, ChB, FRCPC, is Psychiatric Consultant to the Hazelglen Outreach Mental Health Service (Cambridge site), a mobile crisis home treatment service of Grand River Hospital, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He is also a psychiatrist at the Homewood Health Centre in Guelph, Ontario.