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 …

Background It is an important objective of the psychiatric services to keep the use of
involuntary procedures to a minimum, as the use of coercion involves clinical, ethical, and …

Background Identifying baseline predictors of the long-term course of cognitive functioning
in schizophrenia spectrum disorders is important because of associations between cognitive …

Background: In Chile, the clinical guidelines “for the treatment of people from first episode of
schizophrenia” aim to support individuals with schizophrenia to live independently …

Background: In Italy, psychiatric compulsory treatments are regulated by Law 180 of 13-5-
1978 that establishes three criteria: 1) acute psychiatric conditions requiring urgent …

Objective: The ACCESS treatment model offers assertive community treatment (ACT)
embedded in an integrated care program to patients with severe psychotic disorders …

Background Psychosis is an illness characterised by the presence of hallucinations and
delusions that can cause distress or a marked change in an individual's behaviour (eg social …

Background Psychosis is an illness characterised by the presence of hallucinations and
delusions that can cause distress or a marked change in an individual's behaviour (eg social …

BackgroundThe effects of hospital-based rehabilitation including weekly supportive
psychodynamic therapy compared with specialized assertive intervention and standard …

Background: Reduction of use of coercive measures in Mental Health Care has been of
increasing concern for patient organizations, governmental agents and health policy …