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THE LEGAL CONTEXT OF MENTAL HEALTH WORK
This one day course is the Mental Health equivalent of our childcare Legal Context course. It works in exactly the same way via an extended case scenario acting as a series (scenes) of learning hooks for participants to locate law within the context of real practice. Whether you are employed within a statutory agency or working within a voluntary agency your work with mentally ill people takes place within a legal context. This context is primarily defined by the principal legislation – the Mental Health Act but is supplemented with various guidance and regulations, policies and procedures from many other sources. This framework defines powers and responsibilities making it essential that a worker within the field has at least a working understanding of this underlying framework. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals that people working with the mentally ill need to know. Teaching the legal context of work can be mind-numbingly boring if participants just sit and look at overheads all day. Therefore, this course utilises a case scenario which small groups work through during the day (with occasional main group reconvention). This enables the case to act as a “coat hanger” to enable participants to place their learning in a “real” context. This course is a short one so cannot possibly be fully comprehensive (keep this in mind) but we will cover key issues. LEARNING THEMES: by the end of the course, participants will have understanding and awareness re the importance of the following: · Principal sections of the Mental Health Act: S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S7, S12, S13, S14, S23, S25, S25A – 25J, S26, S29, S35, S36, S37, S40, S41, S45A, S47, S49, S57, S58, S62, S65, S66, S68, S72, S93, S114, S115, S117, S131, S135, S136, S145. Includes revisions made by the Mental Health Act 2007. · MH Act Code of Practice 1999 · MH (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 · Revised Court of Protection Rules and associated legislation: Mental Capacity Act · Care Programme Approach Course
Key Texts: Osiris Course Handout Local SSD / Health Policies & Procedures. Jones
R Mental Health Act Manual. (London, Sweet &
Maxwell) DoH
(2001) Statutory Instrument 824: Court of Protection Rules DoH Mental Health Act Code of Practice Goldberg
D & Murray R (2002) The Maudsley Handbook of Psychiatric Medicine (Oxford,
OUP) Pringle N & Thompson P (1999) Social Work, Psychiatry and the Law (2nd ed) (Aldershot, Arena) Stone N (2003) A companion guide to mentally disordered offenders (Crayford, Shaw & Sons) Thompson T & Mathias P (eds) (2002) Lyttle’s Mental Health & Mental Disorder (London, Balliere Tindall) Books in bold type especially
recommended.
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OSIRIS: Lighting the Way Forward
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