Knowledge & Practice Hub

Mental health knowledge and practice hub

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Publication Date: 29 July 2016

Learning points

  • How social workers can improve personalisation in mental health services and support positive risk-taking to improve people’s lives.
  • What an approved mental health professional (AMHP) is and does.
  • How the Mental Health Act 1983 provides for the compulsory treatment of people in hospital and the community.

Mental health and the law

Mental health and the law

The Mental Health Act 1983
The approved mental health professional role
Writing a social circumstances report for a mental health tribunal
Quick guide to deprivation of liberty in psychiatric settings
Deprivation of liberty under the Mental Health Act: Secretary of State for Justice v MM and Welsh Ministers v PJ [2017]
Deprivation of liberty: a legal overview
The Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Autism Act 2009

Training and resources

training and resources

Multimedia learning

Webinar: helping practitioners work with adults who hoard

Multimedia learning

Webinar: attachment-based practice with adults

Using an adult attachment interview to make more accurate assessments and improve outcomes
Multimedia learning

Working with service users as experts by experience

Mental health: resources to support social care professionals

Mental health in practice

mental health in practice

Working with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health
Domestic abuse and mental health problems: quick guide
Working with carers of people with mental health needs: quick guide
Working with adults who self-neglect
Working with adults who hoard
Using attachment theory to work with adults
Multimedia learning

Learn on the go: adult attachment podcast

Personalisation in mental health
Loneliness and social isolation
Parental mental health
Working with independent advocates
Supporting adults with autism
Co-production: lessons from research

Welfare and social support

training and resources

Welfare rights

Supporting children and families with no recourse to public funds
Homelessness
People from abroad and their housing rights
Housing options

Mental health problems

Depression in older adults
Quick guide to dementia, types and symptoms
Mental health problems directory

Substance misuse

substance misuse

Working with adults and alcohol use
Adults who use alcohol and other drugs: lessons from research
Street drugs: categories and effects
Problematic drug use by parents: lessons from research
Drug and alcohol use: resources to support social care professionals

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