ABSTRACT
The main forum for dialogues is the treatment meeting. The focus is primarily on promoting dialogue and secondarily on promoting change in the patient or in the family. Organizing a specific crisis intervention or acute team is one possibility. All staff members will know where to contact if they themselves have been contacted. The best kind of start for treatment after a crisis is to act immediately to wait for the psychotic patients to become more coherent before arranging a family meeting. The patients, their families, and other key members of their social network are always invited to the first meetings to mobilize support for the patient and the family. The flexibility is guaranteed by means of adapting the treatment response to the specific and changing needs of each case using therapeutic methods best suited to each case. The team takes responsibility for the treatment for as long a time as needed, in both the outpatient and inpatient setting.
