"Risky Business": a critical analysis of the role of crisis resolution and home treatment teams

被引:17
作者
Rhodes, Penny [1 ]
Giles, Sally J. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Manchester, Ctr Primary Care, Inst Populat Hlth, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
关键词
Community mental health; Crisis resolution; home treatment; mental illness; psychiatric services;
D O I
10.3109/09638237.2014.889284
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
Background: In 2000, the Department of Health for England recommended the creation of crisis resolution and home treatment teams (CRHTs) in order to reduce the number and length of psychiatric hospital admissions. Central to this was the role of gate-keeping all potential admissions. Aim: To examine the interface between crisis resolution and home treatment and other mental health services. Methods: Semi-structured interviews with mental health professionals (n = 25) at eight sites within one Strategic Health Authority region. Results: Despite wide variation in approach and provision, all teams were confronting common issues related to tensions at both ends of the service user trajectory - on initial assessment and on discharge. Conclusion: The CRHT model is likely to be most effective when there is low staff turnover, flexibility in inter-team working arrangements and senior practitioners have both acute and community experience. Rather than being seen primarily as gatekeeper to the acute service, it would be better to take a system approach and view the CRHT as a resource for clients awaiting discharge or seeking to avoid hospital admission that is equally available to both acute and community services.
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