Junior psychiatrists and emergency compulsory detention in Scotland

Humphreys, Martin

doi:10.1016/0160-2527(94)90017-5

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“…6 Evidence from England, Scotland and Ireland suggests that there are significant gaps in knowledge of mental health legislation among psychiatric doctors. [7][8][9][10] However, remarkably few studies have addressed levels of knowledge of the Mental Health Act or of capacity and consent in our general hospital colleagues. 11 The Mental Health Act Commission has highlighted the importance of training in its guidance notes on this matter and has suggested that this might well be provided in conjunction with a local mental health unit.…”

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The Mental Health Act 1983 and incapacity: what general hospital doctors know

Richards¹,

Dale

2009

Psychiatr. bull.

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Aims and MethodA questionnaire survey of general hospital doctors was conducted before and after a 1h training intervention. Baseline levels of knowledge and confidence regarding the use of section 5(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 and assessment and management of incapacitated patients were determined. Following a training intervention, improvements in these areas were established.ResultsEighteen doctors participated. Confidence in assessing capacity and the knowledge of treatment under common law and section 5(2) were low at baseline. Improvements were seen following the training intervention, with four knowledge items relating to section 5(2) achieving statistically significant improvements.Clinical ImplicationsSimple training interventions delivered by psychiatrists may be an effective way of improving the knowledge and confidence of general hospital doctors.

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The Mental Health Act 1983 and incapacity: what general hospital doctors know

Richards¹,

Dale

2009

Psychiatr. bull.

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“…Attitudinal studies about mental health law have been conducted of both professionals (mainly psychiatrists) in other jurisdictions (e.g., Humphreys, 1994) and of the public (Pescosolido, Monahan, Link, Stueve, & Kikuzawa, 1999). However, there have been only a few studies of the attitudes of mental health professionals who operate powers under the 1983 Mental Health Act (MHA) of England and Wales (Bhatti, Kenney-Herbert, Cope, & Humphreys, 1999;Cope 1992) or its predecessor, the 1959 MHA (Peay, 1981); and even scantier work on professionals' attitudes towards law and its reform (Crawford, Hopkins, & Henderson, 2001).…”

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Mental Health Professionals' Attitudes Towards Legal Compulsion: Report of a National Survey

Roberts

Peay

Eastman³

2002

International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

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We are grateful to the (anonymous) respondents to the questionnaire and, in particular, to Professor George Gaskell and Dr. Patten Smith of the LSE for advice on design and statistical analysis of the questionnaire. We are also grateful to Dr. Martin Humphreys of the University of Birmingham for his helpful comments on an earlier version of this article and to the two anonymous reviewers for this journal.

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“…These are not isolated findings, though previous studies have concerned the knowledge of psychiatrists 3. Medical practitioners base decisions about compulsory hospitalisation on a “needs” rather than a “rights” orientated approach, acting in the patients' best interest and often within the confines of the law 4.…”

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