Assertive outreach: Policy and reality
| dc.contributor.author | Schneider, Justine | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-20T15:58:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-09-20T15:58:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Schneider, J., Brandon, T., Wooff, D., Carpenter, J. & Paxton, R. (2006). Assertive outreach: Policy and reality. Psychiatric Bulletin, 30 (3), pp.89-94. | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1192/pb.30.3.89 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12904/9899 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Aims and method: This survey set out to profile the case-loads of assertive outreach teams in North East England, to discover whether they were reaching the people for whom they were meant. A survey of case-loads of 29 assertive outreach teams was carried out using the MARC-2, HoNOS and GAS instruments. Findings were compared with earlier surveys of the case-loads of community mental health teams in parts of the same region. Results: Clients of assertive outreach teams proved to be at the more severe end of the spectrum on almost every measure: 95% were deemed 'psychotic' and 30% had three or more admissions in the previous 2 years. Conclusions: Assertive outreach teams in the North East are reaching the people they are meant to target. The effects of this shift on existing teams remain to be evaluated. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychiatric-bulletin/article/assertive-outreach-policy-and-reality/1ADF4B2C2F9A70FF9AD38EFFF1F04FE1 | |
| dc.subject | Community mental health service | |
| dc.subject | Assertiveness | |
| dc.subject | Policy | |
| dc.title | Assertive outreach: Policy and reality | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| html.description.abstract | Aims and method: This survey set out to profile the case-loads of assertive outreach teams in North East England, to discover whether they were reaching the people for whom they were meant. A survey of case-loads of 29 assertive outreach teams was carried out using the MARC-2, HoNOS and GAS instruments. Findings were compared with earlier surveys of the case-loads of community mental health teams in parts of the same region. Results: Clients of assertive outreach teams proved to be at the more severe end of the spectrum on almost every measure: 95% were deemed 'psychotic' and 30% had three or more admissions in the previous 2 years. Conclusions: Assertive outreach teams in the North East are reaching the people they are meant to target. The effects of this shift on existing teams remain to be evaluated. |