• Title/Summary/Keyword: ACT(Assertive community treatment) 모델

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A qualitative study on the case managers' experiences of implementing Assertive Community Treatment model in Korea (한국에서의 ACT(Assertive Community Treatment) 적용에 대한 사례관리자의 경험에 관한 연구)

  • Ha, kyung-hee
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.107-133
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    • 2010

  • The attention of case management currently has been highlighted and its importance has been highly emphasized in mental heath field. At this point, We conducted a qualitative study on the experience of case managers from the Suwon Community Mental Health Center where it has implemented the ACT model. Through the result of this study, we verified feasibility of ACT model into Korea. and it has shown that assertive service and team approach has been a critical ingredients of ACT and it extended case manager's ability and brought improvement in relationship between clients and them. the clients has brought a positive changes. However case managers have experienced the dilemma between experts initiatives and clients dependency, and they empathised the importance of the familism and mental health system in Korea. In order to implement ACT extensively, we suggested several implications.