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  • On the ward

    Image via Wikipedia I knew it wasn’t going to be a quiet day when I found a pink paper with a written recommendation for a Section 3 from one of our doctors sitting on my desk next to the ASW Duty Book - a book in which we note any Mental Health Act Assessments that [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008

  • Guardianship - Making decisions

    From my earlier posts here and here, I discussed the possible uses of the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act in a particular scenario. It seemed that in general, the Mental Capacity Act seemed to be offering similar authority as the Mental Health Act. It allows for some restraint to be applied...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-03-2008

  • Guardianship - What hope for the Mental Capacity Act?

    So yesterday, I had found some of the reasons that the Mental Health Act could be used to apply for Guardianship in considering A. The Mental Capacity Act (2005) is fairly new ground - well, over a year now(don’t be fooled by that 2005 thing!) but sometimes as we get older our minds move more slowly...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-02-2008

  • Guardianship - or a journey into Section 7 of the Mental Health Act

    I was called into one of the CMHT (Community Mental Health Team) meetings last week. It was a bit of a surprise. We don’t tend to go into other peoples’ meetings. It is almost like entering an alternate universe. People have the same roles and even tend to sit in the same places around the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-01-2008

  • Approval

    Yesterday, I received confirmation of the ‘approval’ part of my new role as an ‘approved social worker’ (ASW). After completing the designated additional specialist mental health training a couple of months back and having spent these remaining months, carrying out Mental Health...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-10-2008
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