Thursday, 7 July 2022

The Draft Mental Health Bill 2022

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The Mental Health Act 1983 has been through a long process of review. Wessely’s Review was published in December 2018, and the Government Wh...
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Tuesday, 28 December 2021

Thinking out of the Box: Reminiscences of an Out-of-Hours Social Worker #5

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Throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, as well as being a social worker during the day, I also used to do shifts on the emergency out of hours se...
Monday, 20 December 2021

A Christmas Eve Mental Health Act Assessment

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  What every AMHP dreads: being on duty on Christmas Eve and getting a MHAA request just as you’re finishing.
Monday, 18 October 2021

When Love Goes Wrong 2: Psychotic or Delusional Disorders

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  Psychotic or delusional disorders can manifest in two basic ways: Morbid jealousy  (also known as Othello Syndrome) is when a person hol...
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Monday, 11 October 2021

When Love Goes Wrong 1: Adjustment Disorders

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Love can sometimes give rise to bizarre and irrational behaviour. Indeed, it has been argued that since the definition of a delusion “is a s...
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Monday, 19 July 2021

Rosemary’s MHA Assessment from the Channel 4 series Bedlam

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  This is an extract from a Channel   4 series called Bedlam. This particular episode was first broadcast on 14 th November 2013, and featu...
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Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Another inquest for a death in a private mental hospital – why do we even have private hospitals?

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  On 11th June 2019 Brooke Martin, who was 19, was found suspended from a ligature point in her bedroom at Chadwick Lodge Hospital run by El...
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