A Clinician's Brief Guide to the Mental Health Act 5th Edition

Mental Health Law

A Clinician's Brief Guide to the Mental Health Act 5th Edition

Edited by Tony Zigmond · Nick Brindle
RCPsych Publications June 2022

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781009178303
Publisher
RCPsych Publications
Publication
June 2022
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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A 'how to' book guiding clinicians through the mental health legislation that they need to understand and use in their daily practice, covering the Mental Health Act 1983 and subsequent amendments. This revised and updated edition incorporates new acts, such as the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019. It also covers the findings and implications from Professor Sir Simon Wessely's 2018 review of the Mental Health Act in a new chapter. Written by two leading psychiatrists with many years of experience in using the mental health legislation and in running mental health law courses, this book outlines how changes to statutes and case law have a direct bearing on day-to-day psychiatric practice and why it is important that clinicians of all disciplines have access to and understand the legislation.

This is the go-to guide for all clinicians, doctors and nurses working in mental health services.

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the Fifth Edition
List of Abbreviations

1. Setting the Scene, Statutory Law and the Common Law
2. The Human Rights Act in Clinical Practice
3. Capacity: The Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
4. The Mental Health Act
5. The Mental Health Act: Part II (Civil Sections:
6. The Mental Health Act: Part III (Sections Relating to Courts and Prisons):
7. Community Treatment Orders
8. The Mental Health Act: Part IV (Consent to Treatment):
9. Appeals against Detention/Compulsion
10. Special Provisions in Relation to Minors
11. How to Become Section-12-Approved and/or an Approved Clinician
12. Reform of the Mental Health Act

Appendix 1: Guidelines and Forms for Wales
Appendix 2: Guidelines and Forms for England
References
Index
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