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Autonomy and AMHP Practice. Is it Dead in the Water

WebAutonomy is a fundamental legal principle of mental health law and AMHP practice. There is no settled legal definition of autonomy; synonymous with self-determination, it’s …

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Approved Mental Health Professional: More than a legal role

WebThey must be familiar with the day to day working of an integrated mental health service and be able to assess what other services may be required and know how to mobilize …

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An AMHP’s Journey Through s.13(1) MHA — Blog Home

WebWhen mental health services are more disordered than the service user. Even when two doctors are necessary, we need to make changes in the way we assess. Rob …

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The Critical AMHP Files — Blog Home

WebA Matter of Life and Death of the Bill 26 Jan 2024. Towards a Commemoration of Matt Simpson 22 Jan 2024. December 2023. New Variant AMHPing – reflections on a …

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Mental Health Act Assessments: No trace of race. The Role of the …

WebMental Health Act (MHA) assessments are challenging. By their nature they indicate that some kind of crisis is occurring. Time is often limited in the MHA assessment interview. …

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Could these be the key elements of dialogical Mental Health Act

WebThe possible key elements of dialogical Mental Health Act interviewing. 1) Approach a MHA interview with the curiosity of a ‘not-knowing’ stance: there is a key distinction between …

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The AMHP Report – who is it for

WebThe AMHP report is perhaps just a record of that decision to show that due process was followed. There are already checks and balances: the Nearest Relative role, the scrutiny …

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Taking the Leap: Reflections of a newly qualified AMHP

WebTaking the Leap: Reflections of a newly qualified AMHP. 18 Nov. By Natasha Barry. I have worked as a social worker in Adult Mental Health services for the last six years and was …

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“Call the Doctor…Quick!” Assessing Children under the Mental …

WebRelying purely on the legislative framework of the Mental Health Act and Code of Practice is often insufficient as the criteria for admission under Section 2 and Section 3 specifically …

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The Barrage of Three — Blog Home

WebBlakley 2021 ‘Waiting for the verdict’: the experience of being assessed under the Mental Health Act Waiting_for_the_verdict.pdf (port.ac.uk) Akther 2019 - Patients' experiences …

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“AMHP Number Two Please….” — Blog Home

WebJournal of Mental Health 31 (3) 1-8. Horatio Clare (2021): Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing. London: Chatto & Windus. Robert Lewis (2020): National …

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Critical!!!.Who’s Critical

WebWith impending changes to the structure of the NHS and statutory mental health care hovering on the near horizon, to make no mention of a much-reported looming mental …

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s13 Consideration and Solution Focused Practice – the ‘why’ and …

WebWhilst I agree that a focus on s13 consideration is important, necessary, and suggests a different way of working, I think the usefulness of Matt’s article is in his exploring the …

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AMHPersonality: Disordered

WebMental health services were not designed with personality in mind. We see this from the notes of those pictured only in silhouette throughout years of ‘care’. We see how the …

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S136 assessments – one or two doctors

Web21 Oct. By Illegal Left-Eye (pseudonym) In my AMHP Service, we almost always attend s136 assessments with two doctors. This is regardless of whether the person to be …

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A Matter of Life and Death of the Bill — Blog Home

WebThe Bill left untouched key assumptions. It left professional roles intact and comfortable with their well-established power. It left unchallenged the medical model and it kept multiple …

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Compassion and empathy, or we are all “buggered”.

WebBy CKMG (AMHP and lecturer) I was heartened recently to see an article in The Independent which highlighted the significant issue occurring in A&E departments across …

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New Variant AMHPing – reflections on a pandemic. — Blog Home

WebThe instinct to check and challenge decision making during the early months of the pandemic helped. to illustrate that AMHPs are unified by two common themes – the first …

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What does ‘not-detainable’ really mean

WebThe current strategy of using criteria to narrow access, with terms like ‘not detainable’ used to justify the refusal of access to services is not working. It is being deployed as a …

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Blog — Blog Home

WebFour years ago I took on a role developing a separate social care function within a Mental Health Trust. As many of you will know, the framework of the Care Act 2014, …

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Out of Area Beds {OAPs & OATs}

WebOut of Area Beds {OAPs & OATs} 15 Mar. Frustratingly in my both my professional and personal experience, it remains a little-known fact in wider society that it is Approved …

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