The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Psychiatry and Medication - Softcover

Gwen Adshead; Alan Pollard; Robert Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844453049 ISBN 13: 9781844453047

Publisher: Learning Matters, 2009

Synopsis

This book is essential reading for all Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and those students and practitioners on mental health Post-Qualifying awards. It covers the core competencies of the AMHP and how the use of medication fits within the roles of the mental health professional. Fully updated to include aspects of the recently amended Mental Health Act 1983, this guide shows how the law is applied to compulsory administration of medication, the law relating to consent to treatment and the relevance to the European Convention on Human Rights.

About this title

About the Authors

Robert Brown is a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University and was a Founding Director of Edge Training and Consultancy Limited. He was a Mental Health Act Commissioner from 1992 until 2010. He provides refresher training for Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and Best Interest Assessors (BIAs) and contributes to the training of section 12 approved doctors and Approved Clinicians in South West England and Wales. He provides consultation and supervision for the AMHPs/BIAs in the Deprivation of Liberty Team in Cornwall. Rob also provides consultation to Lead AMHPs in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Lambeth, Portsmouth and West Berkshire. He has published widely in the field of mental health and mental capacity law.

Gwen Adshead is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Broadmoor Hospital and lectures at St George’s Hospital in London.

Alan Pollard is Chief Pharmacist at the Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and teaches on ASW courses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844453049
• ISBN 13: 9781844453047
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 144