Acute care treatment services (acts): A model program for providing acute psychiatric services in a homelike environment in an institutional setting
✍ Scribed by Ronald G. Bittle
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 660 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-0847
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✦ Synopsis
The Acute Care Treatment Services (ACTS) Program at Anna Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna, Illinois, offers a unique, homelike environment for many of the institution's acute recipients. The relaxed, natural environment (i.e., pleasant cottages free from the disturbing behaviors often displayed by chronically mentally ill recipients) aims to stabilize acute recipients, expedite their return to the community, and reduce the likelihood of their later rehospitalization by linking them with necessary community mental health resources. Chi-square analyses demonstrated significantly fewer subsequent hospitalizations for ACTS recipients after their second readmission than that of statewide comparison groups. The viability of treating acute mental illness in a natural setting on an institution's grounds is discussed.
A continuing problem facing society is whether state mental hospitals successfully treat people diagnosed with acute mental illness. The psychiatric literature reports the questionable effectiveness of state hospitals and their numerous problems, including