Forty-five years later: the challenge of optimizing assertive community treatment

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The 2009 schizophrenia PORT psychosocial treatment recommendations and summary statements

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Assertive Community Treatment: Twenty-Five Years of Gold

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The Learning Healthcare System: Where are we now? A systematic review

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Outcomes of FLEXIBLE Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) Implementation: A Prospective Real Life Study

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Mental Health Care in the Aftermath of Deinstitutionalization: A Retrospective and Prospective View

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Disengagement From Care: Perspectives of Individuals With Serious Mental Illness and of Service Providers

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Who Supports the Successful Implementation and Sustainability of Evidence-Based Practices? Defining and Understanding the Roles of Intermediary and Purveyor Organizations

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Therapeutic Limit Setting in an Assertive Community Treatment Program

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Best Practices: New York State's Campaign to Implement Evidence-Based Practices for People With Serious Mental Disorders

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Effect of Assertive Community Treatment for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: A Systematic Review

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Techniques Used by Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams to Encourage Adherence: Patient and Staff Perceptions

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Employment Rates in Flexible Assertive Community Treatment Teams in The Netherlands: An Observational Study

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Effectiveness of multidisciplinary psychiatric home treatment for elderly patients with mental illness: a systematic review of empirical studies

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Outcomes of clients in need of intensive team care in Flexible Assertive Community Treatment in Sweden

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How meaningful activities influence the recovery process

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Clinicians’ Perceptions of Challenges and Strategies of Transition from Assertive Community Treatment to Less Intensive Services

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Innovation and Its Discontents: Pathways and Barriers in the Diffusion of Assertive Community Treatment

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Positive impact of IPS supported employment on PTSD-related occupational-psychosocial functional outcomes: Results from a VA randomized-controlled trial.

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Assertive Community Treatment for People With Mild Intellectual Disability or Borderline Intellectual Functioning and Mental Health Problems or Challenging Behavior: State of the Art and Implementation in the Netherlands

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The application of implementation science to community mental health

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Substance use among patients in specialized mental health services in Norway: prevalence and patient characteristics based on a national census

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Transition to low intensity case management in a VA assertive community treatment model program.

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Model fidelity and team members’ experiences of assertive community treatment in Norway: a sequential mixed-methods study

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Initiation of Assertive Community Treatment Among Veterans With Serious Mental Illness: Client and Program Factors

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Stigma and discrimination in individuals with severe and persistent mental illness in an assertive community treatment team: Perceptions of families and healthcare professionals

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State Mental Health Policy: Scaling Up Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Care Practices in New York State

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Availability of Assertive Community Treatment in the United States: 2010 to 2016

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Families in Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams in Norway: A Cross-Sectional Study on Relatives’ Experiences of Involvement and Alienation

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Impact of an assertive community treatment model of care on the treatment of prisoners with a serious mental illness

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Clinical significance of assertive community treatment among adolescents

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Fifty years of progress in community mental health in US: the growth of evidence-based practices

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Negative symptoms, anxiety, and depression as mechanisms of change of a 12-month trial of assertive community treatment as part of integrated care in patients with first- and multi-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders (ACCESS I trial)

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Explicit and Implicit Stigma of Mental Illness as Predictors of the Recovery Attitudes of Assertive Community Treatment Practitioners.

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Responsibilities with conflicting priorities: a qualitative study of ACT providers’ experiences with community treatment orders

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“You Might Lose Him Through the Cracks”: Clinicians’ Views on Discharge from Assertive Community Treatment

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Distance Training and Implementation Supports to Scale Up Integrated Treatment for People With Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

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Clinical Factors Associated with Successful Discharge from Assertive Community Treatment

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Cost-effectiveness of the implementation of a transitional discharge model for community integration of psychiatric clients: Practice insights and policy implications

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Time in Assertive Community Treatment: A Statewide Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Length of Participation

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Determining Engagement in Services for High-Need Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

Smith, T. E., Appel, A., Donahue, S. A., Essock, S. M., Thomann-Howe, D., Karpati, A. M., Marsik, T., Myers, R. W., Sorbero, M., & Stein, B. D. (2013) · Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research · doi:10.1007/s10488-013-0497-1 · Cited by 9

Assertive Community Treatment: Evidence-Based Practice or Managed Recovery?

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Incorporating a Physical Activity Program into an Assertive Community Treatment Team: Impact and Strategies

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Identifying profiles of need among psychiatric inpatients approaching discharge in New York City: a latent class analysis

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Adoption of a Blended Training Curriculum for ACT in New York State

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Uncovering the early vocational recovery phases for persons with psychiatric disabilities participating in a supported employment program

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The Role of Illness Identity in Assertive Community Treatment

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Transitions from Assertive Community Treatment Among Urban and Rural Teams: Identifying Barriers, Service Options, and Strategies

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A Call for Better Data to Guide ACT Policy and Programs

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Opioid overdose survivors: Medications for opioid use disorder and risk of repeat overdose in Medicaid patients

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Examining Youth Flexible ACT Model Implementation in the Netherlands

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The Greek Hybrid Version of the Assertive Community Treatment Model: A Perspective View between Challenges and Limitations

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Dutch Forensic Flexible Assertive Community Treatment: Operating on the Interface Between General Mental Health Care and Forensic Psychiatric Care

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Assertive community treatmentIssues from scientific and clinical literature with implications for practice

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Complex Interventions and Interorganisational Relationships: Examining Core Implementation Components of Assertive Community Treatment

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