Citation

George M, Manuel JI, Gandy-Guedes ME, McCray S, Negatu D. Community Ment. Health J. 2015; 52(8): 882-890.

Affiliation

School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1000 Floyd Avenue, PO Box 842027, Richmond, VA, 23220, USA, mgeorge@vcu.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10597-015-9934-9

PMID

26335712

Abstract

This exploratory study recruited a purposive sample of twelve clinical staff from a Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) team in central Virginia to understand the perceptions and experiences related to assertive engagement. The researchers coded the transcribed data initially as twenty-three sub-themes and further refined the data into four overarching themes: characteristics of assertive engagement, PACT engagement strategies and engagement strategies for difficult to engage clients. Further analysis emphasized that PACT team members emphasized the importance of the therapeutic relationship for engagement, which proves challenging for hard-to-engage clients.

Language: en