Making Decisions in Compulsory Mental Health Work

Boundaries, Frames and Perspectives

Jill Hemmington,Sarah Vicary

• Editore: Policy Press
• Anno: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781447362906
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Ciencias sociales
• Categoria: Trabajo social

Designed to support training and CPD in compulsory mental health work, this book looks at assessment, detention, compulsion and coercion in a variety of mental health settings. It focuses on decision making in a variety of professional roles with people from a diversity of backgrounds including contributions from people with lived experience of mental health services. With emphasis on theory into practice, the book is essential reading for those looking to develop their reflexive and critical analytical skills. Essential reading for all professionals making decisions under mental health legislation and those developing, teaching and supporting practitioners in the workplace, it includes: • critical reflection techniques;• introductory and concluding chapters, summarising the key themes and outlining the future.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Lived experience and the boundaries between professionals and others
• 3 Frames and boundaries of race and ethnicity in Mental Health Act assessments
• 4 Gender and forensic services
• 5 Boundaries of risks and rights and personality disorder
• 6 Reflective supervision, emotional containment and the framing of self and others
• 7 Reflective practice, truth-telling and safe spaces
• 8 Practice education:: boundaries of knowledge, theory and practice
• 9 Compulsory mental health work and multi-professional frames:: occupational therapy in AMHP work
• 10 Nurses as AMHPs:: from ‘unclean’ to ‘honorary social worker’
• 11 Who do you think you are?: Hybrid professionals, boundaries and the context of AMHP practice
• 12 Framing mental capacity and mental health legislation in decision making
• 13 Navigating communication boundaries:: statutory assessments as places for shared decision making
• 14 Compulsory mental health work: framing the future
• Index