Holistic help for a better life
People with severe mental health and/or substance use problems may fall outside traditional treatment programmes. How can an interdisciplinary team provide useful help?
Watch the recording about Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT).
The municipalities feel that the ACT and FACT teams shorten the distance to the specialist health service, while the specialist health service feels that the teams contribute to patients being followed up to a greater extent after discharge and receiving the necessary services in the municipalities.
The target group for the teams may have had negative experiences with previous help, and many have lost faith that treatment can be useful and motivating. Since 2007, there has therefore been a major focus on establishing interdisciplinary teams made up of both service levels. They work to provide outreach and flexible help to people for whom ordinary help does not work. It is the individual's wishes and goals that form the basis of the treatment provided by the team. It should be possible to scale up and down the intensity of the help as required. The services provided by the team should cover all aspects of life. There are currently over 80 such treatment teams in Norway.
In this presentation, Trine Pettersen and Gaute Strand, both professional advisors at the National Centre for Mental Health Work (NAPHA), will present Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT), and the experiences with these treatment models in Norway.
Recording
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