The Approved Mental Health Professional Practice Handbook (eBook)

Kevin Stone, SARAH VICARY, Tim Spencer-Lane (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020 | 1., First Edition
216 Seiten
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-5153-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Approved Mental Health Professionals must possess and deploy a range of skills, knowledge and values in order to make ethically complex decisions on behalf of people with severe mental health difficulties. This invaluable handbook considers these challenges and provides in-depth guidance on all key aspects of the role.

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Approved Mental Health Professionals are specialist professionals authorised to make ethically complex and difficult decisions on the behalf of people with severe mental health difficulties. In this complex and challenging role, AMHPs must possess and deploy a range of skills, knowledge and values. This invaluable handbook considers these challenges and provides in-depth guidance on all key aspects of the role, including: * working with mental health law; * risks and challenges in a Mental Health Act assessment; * staying safe as an AMHP; * resilience as a trainee and practitioner. Packed with helpful features such as illustrations, chapter summaries, discussion questions and further reading lists, this clear and concise book will be invaluable to students on AMHP and Best Interests Assessor programmes, as well as for professionals in the field.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: AMHP • approved mental health professional • Assessment • Decision Making • Diversity • Mental Health Act • Multi-professional • Resiliance • Safeguarding • service user rights • Social Perspectives
• ISBN-10: 1-4473-5153-3 / 1447351533
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-5153-5 / 9781447351535