title: The Adolescent Intensive Management Team: an intensive outreach mental  health service for high-risk adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this paper was to describe the Adolescent Intensive Management (AIM) team at the Austin Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), a unique model of intensive outreach service with high-risk and difficult-to-engage adolescents, and describe the profile of clients referred to it.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study used a retrospective review of clients' data, collected through file audit, over a 12-month period.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The result of the study showed that a 100% retention rate of adolescents with complex social, emotional and mental health needs is possible in a flexible and multi-system approach to service provision.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clients referred to the CAMHS' AIM team displayed a pattern of multiple risk factors and comorbidities. Low caseload of 8-10 clients per clinician allowed flexibility and a level of intensity to make any necessary changes in service provision to better suit the client's needs. The majority of clients showed improvement in functioning following intervention by the team.
authors.affiliation: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Austin Health, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia. ben.assan@austin.org.au
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Assan
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Burchell
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chia
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Coffey
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Floreani
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weir
authors.forename: Sabine Wingenfeld
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Hammond
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Woods
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D015897:Comorbidity; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000458:organization & administration; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D014739:Victoria
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs