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Flexible ACT & Resource-group ACT: Different Working Procedures Which Can Supplement and Strengthen Each Other. A Response.
Article in Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- What is known about flexible assertive community treatment across populations and contexts? A scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Differences in Personal Recovery Among Individuals with Severe Mental Disorders in Private and Supported Accommodations: An Exploratory Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- A pre-post study design: evaluating the effectiveness of a new community-based integrated service model on patient outcomes.International journal of mental health systems · 2024Article
- "It has to be better, otherwise we will get stuck." A Review of Novel Directions for Mental Health Reform and Introducing Pilot Work in the Netherlands.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2023Review
- Service User Experiences of How Flexible Assertive Community Treatment May Support or Inhibit Citizenship: A Qualitative Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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- Embracing the Social Nature of Recovery: A Qualitative Study on the Resource Group Method for People With Severe Mental Illness.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Building flexibility and managing complexity in community mental health: lessons learned in a large urban centre.BMC psychiatry · 2018Article
- The Hourglass Model: Are There Structural Problems with the Scarcity of Positive Results for Flexible ACT?Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2015Article
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Abstract
This article is a response to Nordén and Norlander's 'Absence of Positive Results for Flexible Assertive Community Treatment. What is the next approach?'[1], in which they assert that 'at present [there is] no evidence for Flexible ACT and… that RACT might be able to provide new impulses and new vitality to the treatment mode of ACT'. We question their analyses and conclusions. We clarify Flexible ACT, referring to the Flexible Assertive Community Treatment Manual (van Veldhuizen, 2013) [2] to rectify misconceptions. We discuss Nordén and Norlander's interpretation of research on Flexible ACT. The fact that too little research has been done and that there are insufficient positive results cannot serve as a reason to propagate RACT. However, the Resource Group method does provide inspiration for working with clients to involve their networks more effectively in Flexible ACT.
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