Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Summary
This concise guide provides practitioners with the tools for working with complex mental capacity issues. Focusing on developing communication and reflexivity skills to improve assessments and positively impact the capacity of individuals, it sets out how to achieve excellent ethical standards in assessments of mental capacity and best interests.
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Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 by Camillia Kong
This book provides mental capacity practitioners with accessible ethical guidance and applicable tools for applying the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005. It shows how clients' relationships can impact their capacity in positive and negative ways, and which communication skills practitioners can use to enable and empower those with impairment. It also covers how to engage in self-reflection and transparent debate about values to improve the quality of assessments. Helping practitioners interpret complex issues of mental capacity in the most beneficial way for clients, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners of law, medicine, mental health services and social care.This is an extremely practical book replete with case examples and checklists of reflective questions. It is both accessible and intensely thought-provoking. The authors are two expert guides who take us on a fascinating journey through the intricacies of mental capacity law. -- Professor Penny Cooper, BSc (Hons), Barrister, PhD, Chair of The Advocate's Gateway, Council of the Inns of Court
A valuable and welcome book that focuses on the relational aspects of the Mental Capacity Act 2005; considering the individuals at the heart of best interests decision making to the practitioner, this book encourages us to all reflect on what makes us as individual human beings, what shapes us and apply that in how we engage with others.
Ensuring decision makers see the person first, this book focuses on how practitioners can do just that, intertwining with existing case law, capacity assessments and ultimately best interests decision making. A valuable resource for all that work in this area.
Camillia Kong is an academic researcher and philosopher based at the University of Oxford. She was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research exploring the philosophical issues behind the concept of mental capacity.
Alex Ruck Keene is a barrister, writer and educator. He specialises in the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and has acted in cases involving the Act at all levels up to and including the Supreme Court.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781785922596 |
| ISBN 10 | 1785922599 |
| Title | Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 |
| Author | Camillia Kong |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Year published | 2018-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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