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The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Mental Health Law Robert A Brown

The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Mental Health Law By Robert A Brown

The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Mental Health Law by Robert A Brown

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The fifth edition of Robert Brown's introduction to mental health law for health and social care professionals training to be Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMPHs).

The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Mental Health Law Summary

The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Mental Health Law by Robert A Brown

This highly practical book brings together the elements of legislation, Code of Practice, Memorandum, Government Circulars and relevant case law, policy and AMPH regulations that trainees are required to get to grips with to pass the course and practice as a registered Mental Health Professional.

This fully-revised fifth edition is an essential guide for practising AMHPs, or those currently in training. With extensive appendices which cover Mental Health Act Assessments, Practice Directions (first tier tribunal) and the AMHP Regulations for both England and Wales. it also offers checklists, multiple choice questions and exercises to aid practice and learning, and includes:

- Updates to recent legislation, case law and policy

- The impact of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 on patient admissions and the Mental Health Act

- The implications of the 2017-18 Annual Report by the CQC and HIW looking at detained patients

- Anticipated outcomes of the Mental Capacity Act (Amendment) Act 2019

- A new appendix documenting The Mental Health Act 1983 (Places of Safety) Regulations 2017

About Robert A Brown

Robert Brown is an independent trainer and a social worker and was a founding Director of Edge Training and Consultancy Ltd. He provides refresher training for AMHPs and helps to train Section 12 Approved Doctors and Approved Clinicians in England and Wales. He provides consultation and supervision for AMHPs in Cornwall, Hampshire, Portsmouth, West Berkshire and the Isle of Wight. Rob has published widely in the field of mental health and mental capacity law; co-authoring The Mental Health Capacity Act 2005: a Guide to Practice as well as Mental Health Law in England and Wales. He was a Mental Health Act Commissioner from 1992-2010 and the Director of ASW/AMHP courses over the same period. Prior to that, Rob worked as a Mental Welfare Officer and then an Approved Social Worker with Hampshire County Council. Rob is a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and definitions of mental disorder Chapter 2: Civil admissions, guardianship and community treatment orders Chapter 3: Relatives and carers Chapter 4: The role of the approved mental health professional Chapter 5: Patients concerned in criminal proceedings Chapter 6: Consent to treatment and mental capacity Chapter 7: Mental health tribunals and hospital managers' reviews Chapter 8: The Care Quality Commission for England and the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales Chapter 9: Other relevant legislation Chapter 10: The Human Rights Act 1998 Chapter 11: The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Appendix 1 Checklists for applications and forms Appendix 2 The Human Rights Act 1998 Appendix 3 The Mental Health Act 1983: sections relevant to AMHPs Appendix 4A The AMHP Regulations for England Appendix 4B The AMHP Regulations for Wales Appendix 5 Forms used in England and Wales Appendix 6 Tasks for AMHPs involved in MHA assessments (answers) Appendix 7 Practice Direction (First-tier Tribunal) (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) Statements and Reports in Mental Health Cases Appendix 8 The Conflicts of Interest Regulations for England Appendix 9 Multiple choice answers Appendix 10 Supervision Orders under the Criminal Procedures (Insanity) Act 1964 Appendix 11 Suggested documentation for Regulation 24 Appendix 12: The Mental Health Act 1983 (Places of Safety) Regulations 2017

Additional information

NGR9781526450289
9781526450289
1526450283
The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Mental Health Law by Robert A Brown
Robert A Brown
Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
New
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
2019-10-21
272
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