[Integrating psychotherapeutic treatment of severe mental illness: between desirability and clinical practice]

Pfammatter, M; Junghan, U M (2012). [Integrating psychotherapeutic treatment of severe mental illness: between desirability and clinical practice]. Nervenarzt, 83(7), pp. 861-868. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag 10.1007/s00115-011-3473-6

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Psychiatric care for severe and persistent mentally ill individuals has considerably changed over the last three decades. Striving for improvement in services provision for these patients has led to the emergence of various specialized community services, suited housing and supported work offers. Moreover, community-based treatment is also offered during acute episodes of mental illness. At the same time a range of evidence-based psychotherapeutic approaches targeting treatment needs of people with severe mental illness were developed in a process independent of the rise of community psychiatry. At present, however, a sufficient level of coordination of psychiatric services and integration of evidence-based psychological treatment into psychiatric care has not been achieved. Thus, these issues represent important steps in the further development.This paper discusses recent developments in psychiatric care of people with severe mental illness and reviews the evidence-based psychotherapy approaches suited to fit the needs of patient-centered integrated care.

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