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FACT: A Dutch Version of ACT

Author: J. Remmers van Veldhuizen

Published in: Community Mental Health Journal | Issue 4/2007

Abstract

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a well-defined service delivery model for the care and treatment of the most severely mentally ill in the community. We have opted for a Dutch version named ‘Function’ ACT or FACT. In a FACT team, ACT is one of the functions that the team can perform. For more stable long-term patients FACT provides coordinated multidisciplinary treatment and care by individual case management. Unstable patients at risk of relapse are followed with assertive outreach care by the same team, working with a shared caseload for this subgroup. This article describes the service model and everyday practice in FACT.

The F in the Dutch acronym FACT originally stood for ‘function’. The idea behind the term is that the FACT team functions in different ways: for the 20% group the FACT team functions in exactly the same way as an ACT team, but it also has many other functions. However, in English we would like to have the F also stand for ‘Flexible’. We hope that not too much confusion will be caused by the use of the same acronym, FACT, in America to refer to forensic ACT teams.

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Title: FACT: A Dutch Version of ACT
Author: J. Remmers van Veldhuizen
Publication date: 01-08-2007
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Published in: Community Mental Health Journal / Issue 4/2007
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-007-9089-4

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