Care models
Crisis Resolution Team (CRT)

SAs part of the RECOVER model, the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf has implemented the mental healthcare model ’Crisis Resolution Team (CRT)’. CRT includes short-term assertive acute treatment. CRT is defined as a “specialist, multi- professional, and, if necessary, interdisciplinary team with the task of providing temporary acute treatment at home for patients in acute phases of mental illness”.

Team structures

Multi-professional: doctors, psychologists, nurses, social workers, recovery companions
Interdisciplinary: Adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatics, general medicine, sexual medicine/forensics, supported employment
Experts for crisis intervention

Core tasks

Evidence-based, flexible, outreach, follow-up, intensive, and short-term acute treatment in the home environment
24h/day crisis intervention
Acute board for planning and coordination of acute treatment
Pharmacological, psychological, social and somatic treatments and their coordination
Treatment until the crisis is over or the patient is stabilised
Support in planning and overcoming future crises
Organisation of the treatment plan and transfer to further treatment
Renewed crisis intervention if necessary

Lambert M, Kraft V (2017) Manual 4: Evidence-based Implementation, Certification and Auditing of Crisis Resolution Teams (CRTs); Last accessed: WWW.RECOVER-HAMBURG.DE/PUBLIKATIONEN (accessed July 16, 2018)

SAs part of the RECOVER model, the University Medical Center Hamburg has implemented the mental health care model ’Crisis Resolution Team (CRT)’. CRT includes short-term assertive acute treatment. CRT is defined as a “specialist, multi- professional and, if necessary, interdisciplinary team with the task of providing temporary acute treatment at home for patients in acute phases of mental illness”.

Team structures

Multi-professional: doctors, psychologists, nursing, social workers, recovery companions
Interdisciplinary: Adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatics, general medicine, sexual medicine/forensics, supported employment
Experts for crisis intervention

Core tasks

Evidence-based, flexible, outreach, follow-up, intensive and short-term acute treatment in the home environment
24h/day crisis intervention
Acute board for planning and coordination of acute treatment
Pharmacological, psychological, social and somatic treatments and their coordination
Treatment until the crisis is over or the patient is stabilized
Support in planning and overcoming future crises
Organization of the treatment plan and transfer to further treatment
Renewed crisis intervention if necessary

Crisis Resolution Team (CRT)

Crisis Resolution Team (CRT)

Care modelsCrisis Resolution Team (CRT)

Team structures

Core tasks

Team structures

Core tasks

Care models
Crisis Resolution Team (CRT)