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Innovative Interventions in the Community

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Facilitating Pathways

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This chapter describes three different services in three different countries that have two things in common:

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    They are directly addressed to and based in a community.

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    They are innovative in terms of the addressed population, in terms of methodology and also in terms of funding.

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  1. Dept. of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Largo del Pozzo, 71, 41100, Modena, Italy

    Ernesto Caffo MD (Prof., Chair of Child Neuropsychiatry), Barbara Forresi PsyD & Carlotta Belaise PsyD

  2. Dept. of Psychology I, University of Rome La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi, 78, 00100, Rome, Italy

    Dr. Giampaolo Nicolais

  3. Tel Aviv Mental Health Center, 9 Hat’Tzvi Street, Ramat hatayasim, Tel Aviv, 67197, Israel

    Nathaniel Laor MD, PhD (Prof.) & Leo Wolmer MD (Prof.)

  4. Klinik für Kinder- und Jugend- psychiatrie und -psychotherapie, Klinikum der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Sachs-Str. 4 und 6, 35033, Marburg, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Dr. Helmut Remschmidt

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Caffo, E. et al. (2004). Innovative Interventions in the Community. In: Remschmidt, H., Belfer, M.L., Goodyer, I. (eds) Facilitating Pathways. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18611-0_14

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