Assessing mental capacity can be particularly complex. Explore new Research in Practice resources that address decision-making in key areas of practice.
Professionals in health and social care face difficult decisions involving legal responsibility, ethical care, and the realities of people’s lives. When questions around mental capacity arise, having confidence, clarity, and compassion is crucial.
The new resources contain learning, legislation, practice considerations and reflective prompts. Seven guides each focus on a specialist area:
- Supporting people who use alcohol or other drugs
- Supporting people who self-neglect
- Domestic abuse
- Supporting people with Prader-Willi syndrome
- Restrictive and controlling interventions
- Informal admissions to hospital for mental health care
- Community treatment orders
The guides are accompanied by two decisional balance tools. The resources are valuable to professionals working in social care but also those in allied healthcare professions such as the NHS.
By combining reflective tools, case law, and practical frameworks we can promote thoughtful, ethical and informed decision-making.
Practice Guides and tools
This suite of resources consists of seven specialist guides that each address an area of practice in which social care professionals might need to consider mental capacity.
Strengthening practice
The new resources strengthen practice in complex areas - whether working with people who use alcohol and other drugs, have Prader-Willi syndrome, or are experiencing domestic abuse, self-neglect or mental health difficulties.
In a new blog, Melika Malone-Lee introduces the resources – highlighting key areas of practice. It is important to acknowledge the emotional weight of decision-making to support professional reflection, questions and growth.
Blog
A new suite of resources have been produced by Research in Practice to support areas where assessing mental capacity can be particularly complex. In this blog, Melika Malone-Lee introduces the resources and how they are useful for practice.
