This complete and comprehensive guide to the Mental Health Act 1983 for
any mental health professional - from social workers, psychologists and
occupational therapists, to doctors and nurses. The book aims to
simplify mental health law so that it's accessible to busy professionals
at all stages of practice as well as those affected by mental health
law.
Key chapters include details on who operates the Act, who is affected by
it, how the law governs issues of capacity and consent to treatment, how
to appeal against compulsion, and the role of the nearest relative.
There are also important chapters on advocacy, children and human rights
issues, as well as an extensive appendices which provide access to the
1983 Act itself, important rules and regulations, and a summary of key
cases.
This fourth edition includes:
- Practical advice and checklists for working the Act
- Information on detention of patients in hospital under The Mental
Health Act
- The impact of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 on periods of detention
and places of safety
- Additional case law detailing patient discharges and Deprivation of
Liberty Safeguards.
- The Supreme Court 2019 judgement in the case of D (A Child)