@article{ref1,
title="The Adolescent Intensive Management Team: an intensive outreach mental health service for high-risk adolescents",
journal="Australasian psychiatry",
year="2008",
author="Assan, Ben and Burchell, Peter and Chia, Audrey and Coffey, Claire and Floreani, Sophie and Weir, James and Hammond, Sabine Wingenfeld and Woods, Barbara",
volume="16",
number="6",
pages="423-427",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper was to describe the Adolescent Intensive Management (AIM) team at the Austin Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), a unique model of intensive outreach service with high-risk and difficult-to-engage adolescents, and describe the profile of clients referred to it. METHOD: This study used a retrospective review of clients' data, collected through file audit, over a 12-month period. RESULTS: The result of the study showed that a 100% retention rate of adolescents with complex social, emotional and mental health needs is possible in a flexible and multi-system approach to service provision. CONCLUSION: Clients referred to the CAMHS' AIM team displayed a pattern of multiple risk factors and comorbidities. Low caseload of 8-10 clients per clinician allowed flexibility and a level of intensity to make any necessary changes in service provision to better suit the client's needs. The majority of clients showed improvement in functioning following intervention by the team.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1039-8562",
doi="10.1080/10398560801886021",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10398560801886021"
}