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Assertive Community Treatment And The Physical Health Needs Of Persons With Severe Mental Illness: Issues Around Integration Of Mental Health And Physical Health, Mona Shattell, Natasha Donnelly, Anna Sheyett, Gary Cuddeback
Assertive Community Treatment And The Physical Health Needs Of Persons With Severe Mental Illness: Issues Around Integration Of Mental Health And Physical Health, Mona Shattell, Natasha Donnelly, Anna Sheyett, Gary Cuddeback
Mona Shattell
BACKGROUND: Assertive community treatment (ACT) is characterized as a service delivery platform and represents an ideal setting in which mental health and physical health care can be integrated. OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the extent to which ACT integrates physical health care with mental health care or the challenges ACT teams experience. To address this gap, focus groups were conducted with five ACT teams in a Midwestern US state to explore how ACT teams address the physical health care needs of persons with severe mental illness. DESIGN: A qualitative study design was used. RESULTS: Three major themes emerged: ACT teams …