Wednesday, 24 April 2013

When Service Users Seek To Deceive Part IV

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The Masked AMHP assessing "nature or degree" in the hit Edinburgh Fringe play "How to Survive a Mental Health Tribunal -- ...
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Saturday, 6 April 2013

Are CTO’s Any Good? Observations on the OCTET Trial

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  I recently read the abstract of the OCTET research into the use of Community Treatment Orders for patients with psychosis published i...
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Monday, 1 April 2013

How to Displace the Nearest Relative, as Told to Sooty

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What’s that, Sooty? You want to know what to do if a patient’s Nearest Relative unreasonably objects to making an application for admiss...
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Saturday, 23 March 2013

When Do You Stop Extending a Community Treatment Order?

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Patients subject to CTOs at 31 March 2012, by gender and by year Community Treatment Orders were introduced into the MHA 1983 by th...
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Friday, 8 March 2013

Should People with Personality Disorders Ever Be Sectioned?

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  The DSMV (yes, I am that up-to-date), when discussing the diagnostic criteria for personality disorder, states:   “The essential...
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Review: The Pocketbook Guide to MHA Assessments

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  Claire Barcham is an AMHP who has been closely involved for a long time with the development of AMHP practice, including involvement ...
Saturday, 9 February 2013

They Don’t Give ATOS: Public Accounts Committee Criticises Work Capability Assessments

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It was reported yesterday (8 th February 2013) that the Parliamentary Public Affairs Committee has severely criticised the Department o...