Strategies for implementation of early intervention for psychosis in a catchment area mental health system: a mixed methods comparison

Background/Objectives: The past decade has seen a rise in specialist mental health teams delivering specific functions, such as crisis resolution and home treatment teams, assertive outreach teams and early intervention services for psychosis. Such services have been introduced in a range of countries in the developing world, but are nowhere more prominent than in England, where they have been a mandatory component of services for the past decade. We now have some evidence that service models such as early intervention and crisis resolution are effective under the right conditions. Regarding their implementation…