Integrated mental health care

1. Introduction: who needs community-based care? 2. Community management of mental disorders: integrating patients, carers and primary health care with specialist mental health services 3. Effective therapeutic strategies 4. Early detection of major mental disorders 5. Problem-based assessment of functioning 6. Crisis intervention and intensive care for acute episodes: creating an asylum at home 7. Prevention of recurrent disorders 8. Integrated clinical management of the long-term disabled 9. Assessment of benefits and costs of the service to the community 10. Conclusions and future directions.