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Demystifying Mental Capacity
A guide for health and social care professionals
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Edited by:
- Sally Lee - Bournemouth University, UK
- Lee-Ann Fenge - Bournemouth University, UK
- Keith Brown - Bournemouth University, UK
- Michael Lyne - Bournemouth University, UK
April 2020 | 152 pages | Learning Matters
This very practical book helps professionals and students to engage critically with their practice by addressing mental capacity and adult safeguarding. Its accessible and easy to navigate format include key topics surrounding assisted decision making, deprivation of liberty, and consent.
Lee-Ann Fenge & Sally Lee
Chapter 1: Reflecting on values and bias within mental capacity decision making
Michael Lyne & Sally Lee
Chapter 2: The history and current context of mental capacity legislation and policy
Alex Ruck Keene
Chapter 3: Mental capacity legislation, guidance and case law (1): The Mental Capacity Act and the concept of mental capacity
Alex Ruck Keene
Chapter 4: Mental capacity, legislation, guidance and case law (2): Best interests
Anna Volkmer & Tim Farmer
Chapter 5: Supported Assisted Decision-Making
Sally Lee & Michael Lyne
Chapter 6: Deprivation of liberty: a matter of human rights
Karen Grimshaw
Chapter 7: THe Mental Capacity Act in clinical decisions for care and treatment
Office of the Public Guardian
Chapter 8: MCA and the role of the Office of the Public Guardian
Keith Brown, Lee-Ann Fenge, Sally Lee & Karen Grimshaw
Chapter 9: Conclusion and ways forward
Appendix 1: Specific tips and hints on how to put the MCA Code of Practice (2007) General Communication Guidance into practice
Appendix 2: Content of communication skills training in dementia care
Appendix 3: Guidelines for making written information accessible to different clinical populations
Michael Lyne
Appendix 4: How case law defines the meaning of deprivation of liberty
Teresa Kippax
Appendix 5: The Care Quality Commission (CQC)
This book is an excellent aid to support social work and health care practitioners, particularly in the context of integrated health and social care with demystifying mental capacity.
This guide is an invaluable aid to practitioners where issues of mental capacity may be of concern. Also an excellent resource for student social workers, student nurses and medical students re the examining and understanding of the importance in professional practice.
