Long-Term Effects of the Individual Placement and Support Intervention on Employment Status: 6-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

People with mental illness often experience difficulties with reintegration into the workplace, although employment is known to assist these individuals in their recovery process. Traditional approaches of "first train, then place" have been recently replaced by supported employment (SE) methods that carry strategy of "first place, then train." Individual placement and support (IPS) is one of the best-studied methods of SE, which core principles are individualized assistance in rapid job search with consequent placement in a paid employment position.

Is Home Treatment for Everyone? Characteristics of Patients Receiving Intensive Mental Health Care at Home.

We aimed at determining differential characteristics of patients treated by a home treatment (HT) team compared to patients treated on hospital wards. Of 412 consecutively admitted patients, 194 (47.1%) were at least partially treated at home, whereas 218 (52.

Home Treatment for Acute Mental Healthcare: Who Benefits Most?

Home treatment (HT) has been proposed as an alternative to inpatient treatment for individuals in acute mental crises. However, there is limited evidence concerning the effectiveness of HT to date. The aim of this study was to investigate which patients benefit most from HT.

Home treatment for acute mental healthcare: randomised controlled trial.

Background: Home treatment has been proposed as an alternative to acute in-patient care for mentally ill patients. However, there is only moderate evidence in support of home treatment.

Aims: To test whether and to what degree home treatment services would enable a reduction (substitution) of hospital use.

Coercion in substance use disorders: clinical course of compulsory admissions in a Swiss psychiatric hospital.

According to the Swiss legal system, involuntary admission is one of the farthest-reaching incursions into personal autonomy. The effect of compulsory admission in treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs) on variables such as length of stay or leaving treatment before recommended discharge remains elusive. In order to elucidate these effects, we retrospectively analysed the clinical course of treatment of 608 patients who were admitted between November 2016 and October 2017 to the Department of Addictive Disorders of the canton of Aargau.

[How does Home Treatment Work out in Practice? A Qualitative Study Among Patients, Relatives, and Staff].

Objective: To identify effective components of home treatment (HT) and to evaluate the implementation of a new HT team from a service user perspective.

Methods: Experiences of patients, relatives and staff were assessed using semi-structured interviews and an online questionnaire. Thematic analysis was applied to determine key themes.

Validity of routine clinical diagnoses in acute psychiatric inpatients.

Aim: To examine the validity of diagnoses obtained by clinicians during routine clinical examination on acute psychiatric inpatient wards.

Methods: N=100 inpatients with a broad spectrum of major mental disorders were randomly selected in a mental hospital's department of general psychiatry. Patients were diagnosed by independent assessors within Md = 5 (Range: 1-18) days of admission using the SCID I in order to examine the validity of the diagnoses given by the clinical staff based on routine assessments.