Interactive Tool Mental Health & Mental Capacity
Capacity Under Pressure: Executive Function Challenge
Explore how memory load, distractions and time pressure shape professional judgement in an eight-part mental capacity challenge.
- Resource type
- Interactive Tool
- Practice area
- Mental Health & Mental Capacity, Neurodiversity, Diversity & Inclusion, Person-Centred & Relationship Based Practice
- Who it is for
- Practitioners, Supervisors, Students & Trainees
- Time to use
- 5–15 min
- Use this when
- In a team discussion, After training
What this helps with
How do you hold onto important details when demands compete for your attention?
Capacity Under Pressure is a 10-minute interactive challenge exploring executive function demands through a social care scenario. Follow Mina Patel’s referral and work through eight short tasks involving memory, sequencing, evidence, changing information and professional judgement.
Complete the full timed challenge or practise individual modules. You’ll receive feedback and a performance breakdown, with an opportunity to reflect on what pressure changed and what support might help.
Use the experience for CPD, supervision or team discussion about assumptions, communication and the conditions in which people are asked to make decisions. This is a learning activity, not a diagnostic test or a simulation of any one person’s experience of ADHD.
Useful for
CPD, supervision, team discussion, reflective practice
What is inside
- Scenarios
- Memory activity
- Quiz
- Reflective practice