Background Intensive Case Management (ICM) is a community‐based package of care
aiming to provide long‐term care for severely mentally ill people who do not require …

We describe different models of community care for persons with severe mental illness and
review the research literature on case management, including the results of 75 studies. Most …

Abstract Background Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) was developed in the early
1970s as a response to the closing down of psychiatric hospitals. ACT is a team‐based …

Much has occurred since the publication of the first edition of this classic textbook. Recovery
from psychiatric disabilities has become the new vision for mental health services. It has …

OBJECTIVE: Meta-analytical methods were used to investigate the effectiveness of case
management and to compare outcomes for assertive community treatment and clinical case …

The burgeoning field of case managementfor long-term psychiatric patients has been
handicapped by a lack of conceptual models that delineate the diverse activities of case …

Background Since the 1960s, in many parts of the world, large psychiatric were closed down
and people were treated in outpatient clinics, day centres or community mental health …

Psychiatric rehabilitation has become accepted by the mental health field as a legitimate
field of study and practice. Over the last several decades various psychiatric rehabilitation …

This review examines the impact of assertive community treatment (ACT) and case
management models on the use of inpatient hospitalization and other community mental …

A comprehensive review of published and unpublished research studies of case
management for severely mentally disabled adults was undertaken. This yielded 20 studies …