Evidence-Based Practices: Shaping Mental Health Services Toward Recovery

Assertive Community Treatment

The goal of Assertive Community Treatment is to help people stay out of the hospital and to develop skills for living in the community, so that their mental illness is not the driving force in their lives. Assertive community treatment offers services that are customized to the individual needs of the consumer, delivered by a team of practitioners, and available 24 hours a day.

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Table of Contents

User's Guide < HTML | PDF >

• Selected Articles < HTML | PDF >

Information

• For Consumers < HTML | PDF >
  
• For Families & Other Supporters < HTML | PDF >
  
• For Practitioners & Clinical Supervisors < HTML | PDF >
  
• For Mental Health Program Leaders < HTML | PDF >
  
• For Public Mental Health Authorities < HTML | PDF >

Implementation

• Tips for Mental Health Program Leaders < HTML | PDF >
  
• Tips for Public Mental Health Authorities < HTML | PDF >
  
  • Assertive Community Treatment Literature Review < HTML | PDF >
• Cultural Competence < HTML | PDF >
  
• Fidelity Scale < HTML | PDF >
  
  • Assertive Community Treatment Fidelity Scale < HTML | PDF >
    
  • Using Fidelity Scales for Evidence-Based Practices < HTML | PDF >
• General Organizational Index < HTML | PDF >
  
• Monitoring Client Outcomes < HTML | PDF >

Workbook for Clinical & Practical Supervisors < HTML | PDF >

Videotapes

• Introductory Videotape
  
• Practice Demonstration Videotape

Español

• Información para Miembros de la Familia y Otros Miembros de Apoyo
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• Información para los Consumidores < HTML | PDF >