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The 16th National Congress of the South African Society of Psychiatrists has opened its doors to various branches and fields of psychiatry for consideration, including the areas of community psychiatry and psychosocial rehabilitation
The assertive community treatment model (ACT) model emanated from the observation that many clients with severe mental illness (SMI) are non-compliant with treatment or do not use clinicbased mental health services for other reasons
In early 1970s Mary Anne Test[2] and her team decided to shift the focus from hospital to community rehabilitation, and ACT was born as part of the de-institutionalisation of psychiatry
Summary
The 16th National Congress of the South African Society of Psychiatrists has opened its doors to various branches and fields of psychiatry for consideration, including the areas of community psychiatry and psychosocial rehabilitation. The effectiveness and importance of community-based rehabilitation programmes for patients suffering from schizophrenia and other chronic psychotic disorders have been well documented in the literature under various names and approaches. The objective of this editorial is briefly to look at current knowledge of the topic and reflect on its importance for South Africa. The ACT of case management is by far the most comprehensive and may incorporate some aspects of the others into its approach. It is worth considering how it could be adapted to the South African context
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