| Interventions available from many community psychiatric services
Crisis assessment and treatment
Multidisciplinary
teams with 24-hour availability, ready to see a patient at home or
elsewhere and able to provide intensive, short-term consultations
and specialist assessment.
Consultation and continuing care
Multidisciplinary teams providing assessment and ongoing
management on an outpatient basis.
Intensive assertive case management
Multidisciplinary teams with seven-day availability, ready to see a
patient at home or elsewhere and able to provide individual
management plans, long-term intensive rehabilitation, specialist
monitoring, treatment and review.
Community care units
Staffed by specialist
multidisciplinary teams on a 24-hour basis; provide secure,
supported residential accommodation in the long term and intensive
rehabilitation in the patient's local community.
General hospital psychiatric units
Staffed by
multidisciplinary teams on a 24-hour basis; provide acute
psychiatric treatment and asylum when needed, usually on short-term
basis.
Homeless services
Multidisciplinary teams; see
patients in hostels, residential hotels and other temporary,
unsupported accommodation environments; provide assertive care
management with individual management plans, long-term specialist
monitoring, treatment and review.
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