Evidence
"critical ingredients"
Critical ingredients of assertive community treatment: Judgments of the experts
Reports experts’ opinions on the ideal specifications of the ACT model. Describes two subgroups of experts — those who advocated large multidisciplinary teams (100 or more clients) with day and evening shifts and those who advocated smaller, often generalist, teams (approximately 50 clients).
Keywords:
critical ingredients
community services
deinstitutionalization
mental health personnel
mental health program evaluation
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McGrew, J.H. & Bond, G.R. (1995). Critical ingredients of assertive community treatment: Judgments of the experts. The Journal of Mental Health Administration, 22(2), 113-125.
Program fidelity in Assertive Community Treatment: development and use of a measure.
Describes the development of the Dartmouth Assertive Community Treatment Scale (DACTS) and the results of applying it to 50 diverse programs.
Keywords:
critical ingredients
community mental health services
deinstitutionalization
psychotic disorders/rehabilitation
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Teague, G. B., Bond, G. R., & Drake, R. E. (1998). Program fidelity in Assertive Community Treatment: development and use of a measure. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 68, 216-232.