… The questions referred to “CTO” (community treatment order) as this was the term the
authors believed would be recognised by patients in the survey population. A Likert scale was …

… Assertive community treatment (ACT) is an extensively studied and widely imitated community
support treatment model for severely mentally ill individuals. Several previous reviews …

… in local hospitals and day treatment centers and have spent most of their time in community
… If we exclude the 23% who are receiving no treatment and look only at those 76 persons …

… Neither depot medications nor obligatory community treatment reduced the risk of
aggressive behavior after controlling for the presence of a severe positive symptom and/or TCO …

… study, a large randomised controlled trial in England involving 336 patients, found that a
community treatment order (CTO), a form of involuntary out-patient treatment, failed to …

… ment) refers to the individual’s perception of the necessity for treatment in order to change.
Suitability refers to the perception of the appropriateness of the TC residential treatment …

BackgroundThe view that severe personality disorder (SPD) is untreatable derives from poor-quality
studies of treatment outcome which use indirect measures of SPD pathology. This …

… The purpose of this paper is to review the empirical literature on housing and support,
assertive community treatment (ACT), and intensive case management (ICM) interventions for …

Evaluation of assertive community treatment programs has demonstrated that they are highly
effective in reducing the need for psychiatric hospitalization of chronic mentally ill patients. …

… ceptions of treatment are … treatment programs such as therapeutic communities. The
relevance of this clinical impression is underscored in the considerable research on drug treatment …