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A Clinician’s Brief Guide to the Mental Health Act
£23.70
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.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 5th edition (9 Jun. 2022), Cambridge University Press |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 168 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 100917830X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1009178303 |
| Dimensions | 15.6 x 1.07 x 23.39 cm |
by trin1721
In depth discussion of MCA and MHA, with plenty of examples of recent court rulings and highlighting of many areas of uncertainty and ambiguity that remain.
Would benefit from
1. A quick guide summary of the MCA, MHA, and how they interact (e.g. 1 page flowcharts) at the start of chapters. I appreciate these would be overly simplified but in practice clinicians need to make quick decisions under time constraints and will not appreciate having to wade through pages of prose to find key recommendations.
2. Get a good proof reader to catch the many typos. Of note, some of these typos would be hard to spot without MHA knowledge (e.g. 5(2) vs 5(4))
Still probably the best book that fits the title