Tony Zigmond, Nick Brindle

A Clinician's Brief Guide to the Mental Health Act

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A 'how to' book guiding clinicians through the mental health legislation they need to understand and use in their daily practice, covering the Mental Health Act 1983 and subsequent amendments. This fifth edition incorporates new acts such as the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019.

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Produktdetails

• A Clinician's Brief Guide
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 5 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781009178303
• ISBN-10: 100917830X
• Artikelnr.: 63622976

Autorenporträt

Tony Zigmond is a retired consultant general adult psychiatrist at Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust, UK. He has been Vice-President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and its Lead on Mental Health Law. He has many years' experience in using the mental health legislation and in the running of Mental Health law courses. He was a Mental Health Commissioner for a number of years, and he has given evidence to the Scrutiny Committees on the draft Mental Incapacity Bill and the draft Mental Health Bill.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the Fifth Edition
List of Abbreviations
1. Setting the Scene, Statutory Law and the Common Law
2. The Human Rights Act in Clinical Practice
3. Capacity: The Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
4. The Mental Health Act
5. The Mental Health Act: Part II (Civil Sections: 6. The Mental Health Act: Part III (Sections Relating to Courts and Prisons): 7. Community Treatment Orders
8. The Mental Health Act: Part IV (Consent to Treatment): 9. Appeals against Detention/Compulsion
10. Special Provisions in Relation to Minors
11. How to Become Section-12-Approved and/or an Approved Clinician
12. Reform of the Mental Health Act
Appendix 1: Guidelines and Forms for Wales
Appendix 2: Guidelines and Forms for England
References
Index.