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Mental Health & Mental Capacity
BASW-approved CPD tools for mental health social work and Mental Capacity Act practice — covering capacity assessments, best interests decisions, AMHP practice and working with mental health complexity in adult social care.
About this area
CPD tools for mental health social work and AMHP practice, covering capacity assessments, best interests decisions and working confidently within the Mental Capacity Act framework.
What this area covers
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 — the five principles and their application
- Capacity assessment: process, recording and defensible decision-making
- Best interests decision-making under the MCA
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Mental health complexity and working with fluctuating capacity
- AMHP practice: assessments, applications and professional accountability
- Trauma-informed approaches in mental health social work
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