We report on the first detailed prospective study of assertive community treatment in South Africa. Our results suggest that assertive community treatment may not only reduce readmission rates in a ...

Teenagers with severe mental health or drug issues can avoid psychiatric emergency rooms or hospitalization under a new Nassau program that brings services into their homes and schools. The Youth ...

Assertive Community Treatment is a method for helping people with severe mental illness. ACT is a comprehensive approach that addresses a patient's basic needs — how to do laundry, how to manage a ...

Social workers are the backbone of compassionate, community-centered care across the UAB Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology. Here, we highlight social workers in three distinct ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday that $21 million in funding has been awarded to 15 Youth Assertive Community Treatment teams to provide services and support to youth ...

A former patient of an Idaho program that sought to keep people with severe psychosis on their medication has died, providers said. It was the third death since the Idaho Health and Welfare Department ...

Idaho lawmakers have reinstated funding for the Assertive Community Treatment program after a five-month shutdown left severely mentally ill patients without support, during which four died. The ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – New York State is set to become the first state in the nation to enact Youth Assertive Community Treatment teams, which serve children ages ten to 21 and their families, ...