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Learning resource workbook for professionals working with children and young people
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH IN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Mental Health in England
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 141p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Focusing on the changes introduced by the Mental Health Act 2007 and related provisions of the Code of Practice, and setting these changes within the wider legal frameworks that affect the care and treatment of children and young people, this workbook is intended to support the learning of professionals who work with children and young people affected by mental disorder. The workbook provides an overview of the nine key changes to legislation brought about by the Mental Health Act 2007 (definition of mental disorder, criteria for detention, age appropriate services, professional groups and new ways of working, nearest relative, advocacy services, electroconvulsive therapy safeguards, Supervised Community Treatment, and referrals to the tribunal), and presents the changes as key steps in the pathway into and out of compulsion (coming into compulsion, making decisions, Supervised Community Treatment, ending compulsion), with activities for each.