We report on the first detailed prospective study of assertive community treatment in South Africa. Our results suggest that assertive community treatment may not only reduce readmission rates in a ...

Teenagers with severe mental health or drug issues can avoid psychiatric emergency rooms or hospitalization under a new Nassau program that brings services into their homes and schools. The Youth ...

Assertive Community Treatment is a method for helping people with severe mental illness. ACT is a comprehensive approach that addresses a patient's basic needs — how to do laundry, how to manage a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island children, teenagers and young adults struggling with serious mental health challenges will gain access to intensive community-based care through a new program ...

Social workers are the backbone of compassionate, community-centered care across the UAB Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology. Here, we highlight social workers in three distinct ...

Idaho lawmakers have reinstated funding for the Assertive Community Treatment program after a five-month shutdown left severely mentally ill patients without support, during which four died. The ...

A former patient of an Idaho program that sought to keep people with severe psychosis on their medication has died, providers said. It was the third death since the Idaho Health and Welfare Department ...