Feasibility of an eHealth service to support collaborative depression care: results of a pilot study.

Background: Treatments and organizational changes supported by eHealth are beginning to play an important role in improving disease treatment outcome and providing cost-efficient care management. "Improvehealth.eu" is a novel eHealth service to support the treatment of patients with depressive disorder.

The development of community treatment in Slovenia - first outcomes.

This paper describes how a team who would work in the community with patients from the rehabilitation unit of Ljubljana psychiatric hospital was developed and what the results of treatment of a group of these patients were in terms of admission and relapse rate. The admission and relapse rate of these patients was markedly reduced by working assertively with them in the community.

Assertive outreach in Slovenia; identification of target group and goals of treatment in a new program.

A team from the Rehabilitation unit of Ljubljana psychiatric clinic attended a course on community care in London in October and November 2005. Because we decided that the methods presented to us could be of great use in Slovenia where the Health system is lacking such services we decided to implement them after our return. Immediately after we returned we started to carry out our plan.

The development of a Leonardo Program for teaching community psychiatry.

This paper describes the use of the EU Leonardo Program to arrange a visit of a team of Slovenian Mental Health Professionals to the UK to learn the basic tenets of Community Mental Health. The project is described, as are a number of methods by which the Learning Experience was Assessed. The results of this program are interpreted in terms of theory of Adult Learning.