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The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook - Second edition (2022)
Book

The Best Interests Assessor (BIA) Practice Handbook is firmly grounded in real-life practice and remains the only textbook focusing directly on the BIA role. Offering clear and practical advice on the legal elements of the role, and the values and pr... Read More about The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook - Second edition.

The Role of Mental Health Social Workers in Crisis Work (2022)
Book Chapter

Research informed practice; Practice informed research (2020)
Journal Article

An inaugural conference was held in May 2019 which had as its theme research informed practice; practice informed research. The aim of this conference was to encourage practitioner researchers to engage with and share research from their own practice... Read More about Research informed practice; Practice informed research.

Approved Mental Health Professional Practice Handbook (2020)
Book

“It's about how much we can do, and not how little we can get away with”: Coronavirus-related legislative changes for social care in the United Kingdom (2020)
Journal Article

The coronavirus pandemic, referred to here as Covid-19, has brought into sharp focus the increasing divergence of devolved legislation and its implementation in the United Kingdom. One such instance is the emergency health and social care legislation... Read More about “It's about how much we can do, and not how little we can get away with”: Coronavirus-related legislative changes for social care in the United Kingdom.

Ethical approval and being a virtuous social work researcher. The experience of multi-site research in UK health and social care: An approved mental health professional case study (2019)
Journal Article

Seeking ethical approval and conducting research in an ethical manner are necessary components of research with human participants. Using the experiences of four individual studies undertaken separately into the same role, that of the Approved Mental... Read More about Ethical approval and being a virtuous social work researcher. The experience of multi-site research in UK health and social care: An approved mental health professional case study.

Treading a tightrope: Professional perspectives on balancing the rights of patient's and relative's under the Mental Health Act in England (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Involuntary detention is used internationally to detain and treat people who are deemed to have a mental disorder. In England and Wales, approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) co-ordinate Mental Health Act assessm... Read More about Treading a tightrope: Professional perspectives on balancing the rights of patient's and relative's under the Mental Health Act in England.

Mitigation of Risk (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) make the final decision as to whether a person should be detained in hospital in England & Wales (UK) under civil mental health legislation. There has been little research to date as to the nature of the... Read More about Mitigation of Risk.

Experiences of Relatives Acting as the ‘Nearest Relative’ Under the Mental Health Act (England & Wales, UK) (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Relatives play a key role when a person is detained under the mental health legislation in England and Wales. Despite this importance, their experiences of undertaking this role has been relatively ignored by research. The Nearest Relative function... Read More about Experiences of Relatives Acting as the ‘Nearest Relative’ Under the Mental Health Act (England & Wales, UK).

Experiences of Nearest Relatives: implications for mental health practitioners & law reform (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The presentation focuses specifically on the experiences of twenty relatives living in England who have fulfilled the role of Nearest Relative (NR) within the meaning of Section 26 of the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1983 (as amended 2007). The NR role i... Read More about Experiences of Nearest Relatives: implications for mental health practitioners & law reform.

Decision making by approved mental health professionals, approved social workers, and mental health officers (2019)
Journal Article

An article considering focusing on the S.P.I.R.A.L model of decision making for Approved Mental Health Professionals, Approved Social Workers, and Mental Health Officers.

Advanced roles for social work: The approved mental health professional (2019)
Journal Article

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Nurse AMHPs: an exploratory study of their experiences (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Mental health and learning disability nurses have been eligible to become approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) since 2008, when the Mental Health Act 2007 was implemented. Despite this, there have... Read More about Nurse AMHPs: an exploratory study of their experiences.

The nearest relative (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Conference presentation on Nearest Relative focusd research and policy.

Can the social approach survive mental health legislation (in review or in action?) (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper consider the legal concept of least restrictive practice, its history and application in Approved mental Health Professional Practice

Best interest assessors practice handbook (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation of Best Interest Assessors Practice Handbook

The use of mental health law by relatives with patients with mental health problems: The case of the Nearest Relative (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The concept of ‘family burden’ has been used by sociologists to explore the emotional strains and economic difficulties experienced by the families of psychiatric patients. Through drawing on published research, this paper considers the way in which... Read More about The use of mental health law by relatives with patients with mental health problems: The case of the Nearest Relative.

The views of approved mental health professionals to the nearest relative role in England (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Involuntary detention for people with a mental disorder is widely used across Europe. Although relatives have a right to be informed of detention in 12 European countries, their role in the process remains under-researched. This paper focusses on t... Read More about The views of approved mental health professionals to the nearest relative role in England.

Demystifying practitioner led research (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper explored the importance of practitioner led research, and the current policy context for AMHP research.

The nearest relative in the Mental Health Act 2007: Still an illusionary and inconsistent safeguard? (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The role of nearest relative (NR) is intended as a safeguard in the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended in 2007) to curb the excesses of professional discretion and protect patients from... Read More about The nearest relative in the Mental Health Act 2007: Still an illusionary and inconsistent safeguard?.