TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - The assertive community treatment team: an appropriate treatment for medical disorders that present with prominent psychiatric symptoms
JO  - Primary care companion to CNS disorders
A1  - Woesner, Mary E.
A1  - Marsh, Jeremy
A1  - Kanofsky, J. Daniel
SP  - 14br01639
EP  - 14br01639
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
N2  - Physical diseases are difficult to treat in psychiatric patients, whether they are comorbid disorders or mental disorders due to a general medical condition. The psychiatric symptoms are difficult to treat in a medical ward or clinic, and the physical symptoms are difficult to treat in a psychiatric ward or clinic. For this reason, medical-psychiatric units have been developed but remain uncommon. It has been suggested that assertive community treatment (ACT) teams are a way in which to integrate medical and psychiatric treatments. We review the case of a woman with psychiatric symptoms caused by Graves disease that went untreated due to medication noncompliance and unmanageable irritability, aggression, and mood variability. We make a case for the use of the assertive community treatment team in the treatment of patients with mental disorders due to a general medical condition when the psychiatric manifestations are severe and cannot be managed in a medical ward or clinic.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2155-7772
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4088/PCC.14br01639
ID  - ref1
ER  -