Assessing Mental Capacity: A Handbook to Guide Professionals from Basic to Advanced Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138102774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 424 str.

MacKenzie Janice; Wilkinson Kate

Opis

Drawing on expertise from neuropsychologists, solicitors, and social workers, Assessing Mental Capacity provides a practical guide for all those required to carry out such assessments, considering the basics of capacity assessments and law, how to make difficult decisions, and how to draw conclusions from capacity assessments.

Recenzje

"A really useful summary of the relevant information and legal guidance coupled with practical tips, cautionary notes and points to remember when assessing mental capacity. It provides illustrative examples of common decisions in clinical practice and discusses complex situations such as high risk decisions, the ‘frontal lobe paradox’, and refusals to engage with the assessment of mental capacity. This book will be a helpful resource for practitioners both for those new to assessments of mental capacity and for those with more experience." – Dr Camilla Herbert, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist