Psychiatrist Dr. Robert Weisman is the director of Project Link at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Project Link is a collaboration between the university and local community service ...

Citation: McHugo, G.J, Drake, R.E., Teague, G.B., and Xie, H. (1999). Fidelity to Assertive Community Treatment and Client Outcomes in the New Hampshire Dual ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — The homeless population could grow when the eviction moratorium ends in March. With the economic uncertainty mental health needs are compounded for many of us, especially for those of us who ...

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 ...

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, ...

Find out why Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) ranks as a best practice in states, counties, cities, managed-care companies, and community-based service organizations that want to improve outcomes ...

Living with a serious mental health condition can make daily life quite difficult. When your thoughts are jumbled or you are deep in the trenches of depression, it is hard to keep track of things like ...

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 ...

Without a program to keep people with severe mental illness on their medications, many will cycle between jails and hospitals, providers said.

Background: A number of recently published randomized controlled trials conducted in developed countries have reported no advantage for assertive interventions over standard care models. One possible ...