One such role was the approved mental health professional (AMHP), whose responsibility is to conduct assessments of people deemed mentally disordered to determine whether they meet the criteria for detention, known as 'sectioning'. Traditionally, this role was undertaken by social workers. Although ...
Legal provision supporting ADM ‘we need to be just clear with people around the limitations, and obviously where interacts with the Mental Health Act, but unfortunately as it stands the Mental Health Act can trump these directives…. obviously whether that continues in the future, we'll see wi...
FOCUS: MENTAL HEALTH - ALONE IN HIS CORNER ; The sectioning of former boxing champion Frank Bruno drew widespread sympathy, not least from writers who have known him over the years, such as Jonathan Rendall. But behind the sad story of one famous man are the tales of thousands of unknown ...
I can promise you - sectioning someone under the Mental Health Act is serious and every single precaution is taken. There is no room for safeguarding issues. Quote Thanks Add post Share Report Bookmark LemonViolet · 28/01/2021 21:13 Is it at least better than no ...
About 125 (57%) of all individuals assessed under the Mental Health Act (MHA) were sectioned. No baseline characteristics or outcome descriptors were significant in explaining DUP. Some process measures were however significant: service users referred to an EIS by their General Practitioner (GP) ...
Plans to “rip up” the Mental Health Act are complete bollocks, deterministic, rip-it-up-and-start-again posturing that are a sexy diversion from austerity. Parkinson was taken by the police, who placed her in handcuffs after sectioning her in a carpark, to a major London hospital. Here...
(bell hooks, 1993) Sectioning is the term commonly used to describe the process whereby an individual is compelled to enter a psychiatric hospital (including a secure hospital) under the Mental Health Act 1983 and detained there against his/her expressed will. Black people's experience of ...
Mental HealthAustralasiaHealth LawHow should the mental element be defined in the legal standards governing a person's 'sectioning' or civil commitment under the Mental Health Act (MHA)? This arSocial Science Electronic Publishing
One such role was the approved mental health professional (AMHP), whose responsibility is to conduct assessments of people deemed mentally disordered to determine whether they meet the criteria for detention, known as 'sectioning'. Traditionally, this role was undertaken by social workers. Although ...