Camillia Kong, Alex Ruck Ruck Keene

Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity ACT 2005

Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This concise guide provides practitioners with the tools for working with complex mental capacity issues. Focusing on developing communication and reflexivity skills to improve assessments and positively impact the capacity of individuals, it sets out how to achieve excellent ethical standards in assessments of mental capacity and best interests.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• 1st ed.
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 267g
• ISBN-13: 9781785922596
• ISBN-10: 1785922599
• Artikelnr.: 52424599

Autorenporträt

Camillia Kong is an academic researcher and philosopher based at the University of Oxford. She was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research exploring the philosophical issues behind the concept of mental capacity. Alex Ruck Keene is a barrister, writer and educator. He specialises in the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and has acted in cases involving the Act at all levels up to and including the Supreme Court.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The legal landscape and the challenge for practitioners. 2. What is autonomy? 3. Why relationships matter. 4. Enabling and disabling narratives. 5. The ethical role of the capacity and best interests assessor. 6. Capacity and best interests: a not-so-bright line. 7. Conclusion. 8. Bibliography. 9. Appendices: theoretical resources. 10. Appendix: practical resource. 11. Statutes and cases.