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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Citation: McHugo, G.J, Drake, R.E., Teague, G.B., and Xie, H. (1999). Fidelity to Assertive Community Treatment and Client Outcomes in the New Hampshire Dual ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -Assertive Community Treatment or ACT provides community-based treatment and healthy living solutions for people with chronic mental illness. Vera French Community Mental Health ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday that $21 million in funding has been awarded to 15 Youth Assertive Community Treatment teams to provide services and support to youth ...

After the governor signed into law a bill to reinstate cut Medicaid mental health programs, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced it would start reimbursing providers for the full ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Northern Rivers Family of Services has launched their new Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, designed to provide intensive, community-based services to kids ...