•PACT stands for Program of Assertive Community Treatment. Notice the word assertive. One of the main goals is ensuring treatment compliance.
•A PACT team can include: generalist staff trained as registered nurses, clinical psychologists, case
managers, substance abuse
specialists, occupational therapists, and vocational specialists, in addition to part-time
psychiatrists.
•P/ACT [PACT is known by other names, i.e. without the P as ACT) was originally developed as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, with the goal of allowing
people to live independently in
the community. But, in reality, P/ACT
has evolved into a coercive, lifelong and non-client*-directed system with medication compliance as its most basic tenet.
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