Time to invest in developing community mental health services.
CONCLUSIONS: This review and benchmarking study highlights the need for mental health policy implementation to be further supported with: development of a service delivery framework outlining essential components of a specialist community mental health system; operational guidance to enable effective team specialisation in accordance with research; investment in practitioner training to support the development of evidence based practice; and processes to ensure effective consumer and carer participation in developing recovery oriented services.
PMID: 26442518 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Australasian Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: O'Halloran P, O'Connor N Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research
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