Product Description: This is a guide to the general principles of Scottish legislation in relation to adult protection. The updated text includes a new chapter on financial harm and abuse and covers topics such as commercial debt, misspelling products, insurance, and loans...read more

Product Description: Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment. Each book contains essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics, complete with expert guidance and model answers that help you to: Plan your revision and know what examiners are looking for: Introducing how best to approach revision in each subject Identifying and explaining the main elements of each question, and providing marker annotation to show how examiners will read your answer Understand and remember the law: Using memorable diagram overviews for each answer to demonstrate how the law fits together and how best to structure your answer Gain marks and understand areas of debate: Providing revision tips and advice to help you aim higher in essays and exams Highlighting areas that are contentious and on which you will need to form an opinion Avoid common errors: Identifying common pitfalls students encounter in class and in assessment The series is supported by an online resource that allows you to test your progress during the run-up to exams...read more

This second edition builds on the success of Mental Capacity: The New Law which was published in response to the UK's Mental Capacity Act 2005. The book has been extensively revised to provide coverage of all the latest developments in UK legislation, procedure, and case law, including an examination of the deprivation of liberty safeguards and a new chapter that deals with the re-emergence of the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court and the cross-over with administrative law. Mental Capacity: Law and Practice provides an authoritative commentary, highlighting areas of potential difficulty and offering practical guidance on the challenges that the UK legislation poses. It includes the text of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (as amended) and the supplementary Codes of Practice. It will be essential reading for private client lawyers, chancery practitioners, non-contentious lawyers, and healthcare professionals.

Product Description: Are you licensed? In the process? This book covers relevant statutory laws, codes and regulations that govern Professional Clinical Counseling in the State of California. Because this book is focused on the practice of clinical counseling, laws and regulations that apply to other therapeutic professions are not included and therefore reduces confusion...read more

Product Description: Mental Health Law Online is the internet resource on mental health law, and mental capacity law, for England & Wales. The Annual Review 2014 contains all news items, arranged thematically, which were added to the website during 2014.

Product Description: There are numerous courses one can go on to find out from lawyers about all aspects of report writing and how to behave when in court, yet, until now, no books aimed specifically at the psychiatrist to give them an understanding of what their legal colleagues require from them, particularly for psychiatrists who just wanted an understanding before committing...read more

Product Description: Many books have been written about forensic psychiatry, expert witness work and the court system. All these assume a prior interest and many are heavy tomes. This book provides a pain-free introduction to all types of psychiatric report-writing, enabling you to decide for yourself if this is something you would like to do - and gives you a pretty good idea how to set about it...read more

-An easy-to-read practical guide to understanding those parts of the Mental Health Act which clinicians need in their daily practice. -Covers the 2007 amendments to the Act and appropriate aspects of other relevant legislation.-Takes into account changes brought about by the new Health and Social Care Act 2012.-Gives advice on detaining and treating patients; plus on giving written and oral evidence to mental health tribunals.- Includes: civil and court detentions, community treatment orders and consent to treatment.-Print run of first edition sold out in just 10 months. Will sell well alongside Expert Psychiatric Evidence, ISBN 9781908020321, published by RCPsych Publications in 2011. RCPsych Publications is the publishing arm of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (based in London, United Kingdom), which has been promoting excellence in mental health care since 1841. Produced by the same editorial team who publish The British Journal of Psychiatry, they sell books for both psychiatrists and other mental health professionals; and also many written for the general public. Their popular series include the College Seminars Series, the NICE mental health guidelines and the Books Beyond Words series for people with intellectual disabilities. RCPsych publishes in all areas of psychiatry and mental health, including but not limited to: Clinical psychiatric practice Intellectual disability Mental health services for children, adolescents, adults and the elderly Psychopharmacology Psychotherapy Rehabilitation psychiatry Family mental health Service provision RCPsych Publications books can help with the following disorders: Addictions Affective disorders Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Bereavement Borderline personality disorder Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) Dementia Depression Eating disorders Perinatal psychiatric disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Psychosis Schizophrenia Sleep problems

Product Description: Designed as a quick and accessible reference, this book helps lawyers understand and address the array of mental health expert issues they will encounter in their cases. Written by John A. Zervopoulos, who is an attorney and a psychologist, each issue in the book is examined through the dual prism of Daubert-Frye principles (the legal perspective) and of professional psychology’s expertise and literature (the psychological perspective)...read more

Product Description: Social workers, healthcare professionals and others involved in the care of vulnerable adults are not aware of the Mental Capacity Act, and are failing to implement it. The Committee wants to see is a change in attitudes and practice across the health and social care sector which reflects the empowering ethos of Act...read more