Assertive community treatment

Correcting some misconceptions

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ID11053578
AuthorsGary R Bond (0000-0003-1587-9823), Mairie Mairie (corresponding author), Thomas F Witheridge, Jerry Dincin, Daniel Wasmer
Year1991
Volume19
Issue1
Pages41-51
Publication date1991-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1007/bf00942252
OpenAlexW1867150
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

Conclusions Except for Mowbray, the commentators approach the issue of mental health services quite differently than we do, a fact which may have contributed to some of their misconceptions. Although not stressed in our original report, our view of mental health services is eclectic and pragmatic, encompassing a wide range of psychosocial approaches. We agree with Salem that a range of options needs to be developed and maintained. The motivation for the development of both the ACT and DIC programs was to address the needs of a population neglected by existing mental health services. By contrast, the commentators' agendas converged on the promotion of nonprofessional forms of help‐giving. Like the commentators, we have long advocated for consumer choice, self‐help groups, and the use of natural supports. Where we part company with them is what we hypothesize would be a minimally sufficient response to over 2 million persons with SMI in the United States. For us, it is not enough to assert that self‐help groups might be a partial answer. For us, the self‐selection into self‐help groups and drop‐in centers (which all of the commentators readily acknowledge) leaves open some troubling questions from a policy standpoint about what happens to those who do not self‐select into such groups, especially because we believe that those who select themselves out are likely to include some of the most vulnerable segments of the SMI population

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