Implementing successful residential alternatives to acute in-patient psychiatric services: what can we learn from professional stakeholders’ perspectives?
N Morant, B Lloyd-Evans, H Gilburt, M Slade, D Osborn, S Johnson · Psychiatrische Praxis · 2011 · Heft 04
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Zusammenfassung
Background/Objectives: Standard acute psychiatric care the U.K. is known to be costly but problematic, with high levels of service user dissatisfaction reported. A number of alternatives to standard care exist, but little is known about their effectiveness, acceptability, implementation and sustainability. This paper reports on data collected as part of a larger study („The Alternatives Study“) that evaluated six residential alternative services in England representing different service models. It aims to understand the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives in comparison to standard acute care, and the system…