This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit an eLetter
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Hassiotis, A.
Right arrow Articles by Oliver, P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Hassiotis, A.
Right arrow Articles by Oliver, P.
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2003) 9: 368-373
© 2003 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Psychiatric assertive outreach and learning disability services

Angela Hassiotis, Peter Tyrer and Patricia Oliver

Angela Hassiotis is a clinical senior lecturer in the psychiatry of learning disabilities and an honorary consultant psychiatrist at Royal Free and University College Medical School (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Wolfson Building, 48 Riding House Street, London W1N 8AA, UK. E-mail: a.hassiotis{at}ucl.ac.uk). Her main research interest is the evaluation of mental health services and interventions for people with learning disabilities and she also has been involved in the development of a memory service for older people with learning disabilities. Peter Tyrer is Professor of Psychiatry at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and Editor of The British Journal of Psychiatry. His main research interests are in evaluations of mental health interventions and personality disorder. Patricia Oliver is a research associate in learning disabilities at the Department of Psychological Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine. Her main research interests are in the evaluation of mental health services and interventions for people with learning disabilities.

Assertive outreach is a well-established method of managing patients with severe mental illness in the community. However, there is limited application and evidence of its efficacy in services for people with learning disabilities who also have mental illness. This paper elucidates current service provision for this group of patients and illustrates the pathways to mental health care available to them.




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Psychiatr. Bull.Home page
J. Prakash, T. Andrews, and I. Porter
Service innovation: assertive outreach teams for adults with learning disability
Psychiatr. Bull., April 1, 2007; 31(4): 138 - 141.
[Full Text] [PDF]