introduced assertive community treatment (assertive outreach) teams in 1999 as part of provision of comprehensive services for the promotion and treatment of mental health. A Cochrane review in 1998 concluded that assertive community treatment was a clinically effective approach to managing the care of people with a severe mental illness in the community. Over the years, researchers have debate...

This study related two cognitive personality characteristics—locus of control and interpersonal trust—to assertive behavior in a sample of recently married couples. Assertive behavior was measured by the Inventory of Marital Conflicts, an observational procedure in which couples resolve disagreements about hypothetical marital problems. Hypotheses were formulated in terms of individual locus of...

This study compared experts' views on the critical ingredients of assertive community treatment and intensive case management. Twenty experts on assertive community treatment and 22 experts on intensive case management rated the importance of 40 elements common to each treatment approach. The assertive community treatment experts gave higher importance ratings than the intensive case management...

Aim: Violent behavior is a feeling of anger, annoyance, emotion, or disappointment that arises and characterized by clenched hand, bulging eyes, glaring, loud, harshly talk can result in dangerous actions for himself others, the environment. be caused various factors, both internal external. One way to deal with violent implementing assertive training. Assertive training an effort express anger...