“They Just Helped Save My Life:” Client Perspectives on the Los Angeles County Full Service Partnership (FSP) Program for Serious Mental Illness

The purpose of this qualitative study was to elicit client perspectives on the Los Angeles County Full Service Partnership (FSP) program - an adaptation of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 FSP clients. Qualitative data were analyzed using themati...

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Published in:Community mental health journal 2023-08, Vol.59 (6), p.1227-1234
Main Authors: Erickson, Blake R., Marti, F. Alethea, Choi, Kristen, Eberhart, Nicole, Ashwood, J. Scott, Zima, Bonnie, Montero, Alanna, Kataoka, Sheryl, Bromley, Elizabeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Ascription
Assertive community treatment
Assertiveness
Basic needs
Brief Report
Clients
Community and Environmental Psychology
Community Mental Health Services
Drug abuse
Health services
Health status
Housing
Housing policy
Humans
Interpersonal relations
Interviews
Los Angeles
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental disorders
Mental Disorders - therapy
Mental health care
Mental health services
Psychiatry
Quality of life
Social services
Workforce planning
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Summary:The purpose of this qualitative study was to elicit client perspectives on the Los Angeles County Full Service Partnership (FSP) program - an adaptation of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 FSP clients. Qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Two major themes were identified from the interview data: (1) Clients’ acknowledgement of the material benefits of the FSP program; and (2) FSP’s impact on restoring and stabilizing clients’ social and treatment relationships. Interviewees greatly valued the material (i.e., basic needs, housing assistance) and relational (i.e., relationships with providers, restored personal relationships) aspects of the program, but did not ascribe the same degree of value to mental health treatment. Interviewees’ emphases on material and relational aspects reflect the status of assertive mental health treatment as an intervention on intermediary determinants of health in the lives of persons diagnosed with serious mental illness.
ISSN:0010-3853
1573-2789
DOI:10.1007/s10597-023-01096-z