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COMMUNITY – BASED PSYCHIATRY IN CROATIA: CHALLENGES AND EXPERIENCES

There is a plenty of evidence for the effectiveness of community-based interventions to achieve a recovery, optimal quality of life and destigmatization of persons with mental disorders. Flexible assertive community treatment teams that provide psychiatric care at homes of these patients are particularly important because of their focus on recovery processes. Implementation of community-based mental healthcare into the Croatian healthcare system is currently limited. In spite of that, a pilot project "Launching Community Mental Health Protection Teams" was realized by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia during 2017 and 2018, as an establishment of an innovative concept of Communitybased psychiatry at the national level. Three mobile psychiatric teams represented the most important segment of the project within the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce, the General Hospital Karlovac and the General Hospital “Dr. Josip Bencevic“ Slavonski Brod. Interventions that have been carried out significantly contributed to remission, recovery, life quality improvement and destigmatization of those with mental disorders. Finally, this presentation will analyze the perspective of the implementation of this model with challenges and limitations caused by the specifics of the Croatian public health system

Community–based psychiatry - mobile psychiatric teams – recovery - Croatia

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