Alternatives to admission for children and adolescents: Providing intensive mental healthcare services at home and in communities: What works?

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 345-350

  Lamb, Clare E ^a,b  

^a GLAN CLWYD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Abergele Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child and adolescent mental health; Day treatment; Home treatment; Inpatient unit; Intensive community treatment

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DAY HOSPITAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOSTER CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOME MENTAL HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZED ADOLESCENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EATING DISORDERS; FAMILY THERAPY; FOSTER HOME CARE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MOOD DISORDERS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651014648     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e32832c9082     Document Type: Review

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