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The social worker's guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Authors:
- BROWN Robert, BARBER Paul
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 160p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Exeter
A practical guide for social workers on working within the requirements of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. It provides checklists and exercises to help people to ensure compliance with the requirements. Where an adult lacks capacity to make a particular decision it sometimes falls to professional staff to make a decision for them. Until now there has been little statute law to govern how such decisions should be made. In 2007 The Mental Capacity Act comes into effect providing a new statutory framework for decision making. This book provides a practical guide to working within the requirements of the Act, identifying situations where staff will need to be familiar with the Act and Code of Practice, and providing checklists and exercises to help people to ensure compliance with the new requirements.
Mental health law in England and Wales: a guide for approved mental health professionals
- Author:
- BARBER Paul
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 464p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
Intended for mental health professionals, including social workers, occupational therapists, general practitioners and nurses, this guide deals with the Mental Health Act 1983 as amended by the Mental Health Act 2007. It includes the full text of the main body of the Mental Health Act, relevant rules and regulations, advice on how mental health law operates in practice, checklists for working with the legislation, and case law and case examples to illustrate key points. It covers the background to the Act, codes of practice, mental disorder and the availability of appropriate medical treatment, civil admission and compulsion in hospital and civil compulsion in the community, mentally disordered offenders, medical treatment, the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the deprivation of liberty safeguards, tribunals, hospital managers, the nearest relative, the Care Quality Commission (England) and the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, independent mental health advocates, Human Rights Act implications, and children and young people.