The Pocketbook Guide to Mental Capacity Act Assessments

Claire Barcham, Daisy Bogg (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2018
Open University Press (Verlag)
978-0-335-26208-3 (ISBN)

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Complete with a foreword by the late Terry Bogg, this handy pocketbook provides accessible guidance to health and social care practitioners on the day-to-day aspects of using and applying the Mental Capacity Act. This includes practical advice, explored with practice examples, on how to set up and undertake an assessment and how to make and implement informed decisions—quickly.

The busy mental capacity practitioner, whether an AMHP, social worker, nurse or from other health professions who encounter vulnerable service users, will find this guide invaluable for efficiently locating the information they need to complete an assessment, supported with a working knowledge of the law.

• Practice information, reflecting revised advice on the Mental Capacity Act and practice changes since Cheshire West
• Guidance on undertaking assessments with the updated Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Liberty Protection Safeguards
• A dip-in, dip-out structure, with chapters dedicated to the legal landscape, understanding the scope of the Mental Capacity Act and linking the Mental Capacity Act with relevant legislation like the Mental Health Act
• Examples of best practice and common pitfalls, including links to the law to make your decisions evidence-based and authoritative
• Checklists and decision-making flow charts to simplify what can prove a complex area

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This book forms part of a series of pocketbooks for social workers. These compact guides are written in an accessible and to-the-point style to help the busy practitioner locate the information they need as and when they need it—all bound up in A5 and under!

The pocketbooks explore key practical skills involved in such areas as mental capacity, report writing and mental health.

Claire Barcham is a HCPC-registered social worker with over 20 years’ experience, including practicing as an ASW/AMHP since 1996 and regularly providing training in this and other areas of social work practice. Daisy Bogg is a qualified and HCPC-registered social worker who has worked within mental health and addiction services for over 20 years, for the NHS, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations. Daisy is also an ASQ/AMHP and BIA.

Part 1: Mental Capacity and Best Interests
1. Setting the Scene
2. How do you know if someone cannot make a decision?
3. What does ‘best interests’ mean?
4. Supported and Substitute Decision Making
5. Mental Capacity Decisions in Specific Circumstances

Part 2: Deprivation of Liberty

6. The Right to Liberty and Security of Person
7. So, you think you need a DoLS?
8. The Best Interests Assessmen
9. Deprivation of Liberty in Specific Circumstances

Part 3: Tools and Checklists for Individuals and Organisations

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2018
Verlagsort	Milton Keynes
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 212 mm
Gewicht	292 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-335-26208-2 / 0335262082
ISBN-13	978-0-335-26208-3 / 9780335262083
Zustand	Neuware