Abstract
Community mental health teams (CMHTs) have their origin in the American Community Mental Health Centre programme of the 1960s. The teams were mandated to provide services with an emphasis on the needs of the severely mentally ill (SMI). However, over time the focus of work became ‘the worried well’, to the neglect of those with severe mental illness. CMHTs are now a firm feature of British psychiatry. A Sainsbury Centre study recently identified over three hundred CMHTs across England, defining themselves as comprising at least four members, from two or more disciplines, with a caseload of individuals with mental health disorders, largely residing in the community.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
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4 articles.
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