The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Psychiatry and Medication

by Robert Brown (Editor), Gwen Adshead (Editor), Alan Pollard (Editor)

Overview

This book is essential reading for all Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and those students and practitioners on mental health Post-Qualifying awards. It covers the core competencies of the AMHP and how the use of medication fits within the roles of the mental health professional. Fully updated to include aspects of the recently amended Mental Health Act 1983, this guide shows how the law is applied to compulsory administration of medication, the law relating to consent to treatment and the relevance to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844455539
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/07/2009
Series:	Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	689 KB

About the Author

Robert Brown is a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University and was a Founding Director of Edge Training and Consultancy Limited. He was a Mental Health Act Commissioner from 1992 until 2010. He provides refresher training for Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and Best Interest Assessors (BIAs) and contributes to the training of section 12 approved doctors and Approved Clinicians in South West England and Wales. He provides consultation and supervision for the AMHPs/BIAs in the Deprivation of Liberty Team in Cornwall. Rob also provides consultation to Lead AMHPs in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Lambeth, Portsmouth and West Berkshire. He has published widely in the field of mental health and mental capacity law.
Gwen Adshead is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Broadmoor Hospital and lectures at St George’s Hospital in London.
Alan Pollard is Chief Pharmacist at the Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and teaches on ASW courses.

Table of Contents

The importance of psychiatry and medication for AMHPs
Psychiatrists: training and how they practise
An overview of psychiatry and classification
Psychotic disorders
Neurotic disorders, substance abuse and personality disorders
Forensic psychiatry
Psychiatry of old age
Psychiatry and risk assessment
Patients as parents
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Treatment issues in psychiatry
Classification of medication in psychiatry
Anti-depressants and mood stabilisers
Anti-psychotics
Anxiolytics, sedative/hypnotics, substance abuse
Older adults, children, unlicensed drugs
The law and psychiatric treatment
Treatment under the Mental Health Act