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Challenges For Providers Working In Assertive Community Treatment, Ngozi Nkechi Orabueze
Challenges For Providers Working In Assertive Community Treatment, Ngozi Nkechi Orabueze
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
This project explored the challenges confronting clinicians who work with the Assertive Community Treatment Program (ACT), a government-sponsored clinic-based program providing services for individuals with persistent and recurrent mental health challenges in a large metropolitan city in the southern United States. The project involved semi-structured interviews with 15 health care clinicians to explore what they perceived as challenges and their recommendations for addressing them. Themes were organized around the 6 dimensions of the the relationship-based care model: leadership, teamwork, professional nursing, care delivery, resources, and outcomes. Identified patient challenges included transportation, lack of health insurance, housing, acceptance of certified peer …