1 Clinical case management for patients with schizophrenia with high care needs Authors: Laia Mas-Expósito 1, 2 , Juan Antonio Amador-Campos 2,3 , Juana Gómez-Benito 3,4 , Lluís Mauri- Mas 5 , Lluís Lalucat-Jo 1,6* for the Research Group on Severe Mental Disorder 7 . 1. Department of Research, Centre d’Higiene Mental Les Corts, Barcelona, Spain. 2. Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 3. Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Barcelona, Spain. (IR3C), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 4. Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 5. Department of Research and Teaching, Fundació Hospital Sant Pere i Claver, Barcelona, Spain. 6. Research Commission, Fòrum d’Iniciatives Assistencials i de Gestió en Salut Mental a Catalunya. 7. The Working Group on Severe Mental Disorder is composed of the following members from Adult Mental Health Care Centres in Barcelona: Mª A. Argany, F. Asensio, M. Berruezo, C. Blecua, I. Bros, A. I. Cerrillo, A. del Cuerpo, A. Escudero, J. Farré, C. Fort, M. García, M. C. González, E. Leno, L. Mauri, I. Mitjà, M. Montoro, M. Nicolás, R. Ordoñez, C. Pinedo, M. Prats, M. J. Redin, M. T. Romero, F. Segarra, J. C. Valdearcos, I. Zafra, M. Zamora and A. Zúñiga. *Corresponding author. Departament de Docència, Formació, Recerca i Publicacions, Centre d’Higiene Mental Les Corts, c/Numància 103-105 baixos, 08029, Barcelona, Spain. Tel.: +34 93 4198611. Fax: +34 93 4448968. E-mail address: lluis.lalucat@chmcorts.com (L. Lalucat-Jo). This study was supported by grant PI050789 from the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs of Spain, Carlos III Institute of Health, Health Research Fund, Madrid, Spain, and grant 2009SGR00822 from the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants, Government of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.