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  • Mental Health and Justice colloquium 2019
      • Advance Directives
      • Community Participation
      • Contested Assessment
      • Insight
      • Legal Capacity
      • Metacognition
    • Sep 30, 2019
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    Members of the Mental Health and Justice research project gathered across the workstreams, alongside participants of the Service User Advisory Group (SUAG) the Advisory Board and Bethlem Gallery, for the MHJ Colloquium 2019. Convening at the Wellcome Trust in London on 16 September, each workstream presented the developments and future areas of research to the

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  • Avoiding hard capacity assessments will not help
      • Contested Assessment
      • Workstream 6
    • Aug 09, 2019
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    In response to Zhong et al, A pragmatist’s guide to the assessment of decision-making capacity, published in The British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 214, Issue 4 April 2019, Nuala Kane, Alex Ruck Keene, and Gareth Owen write: Avoiding hard capacity assessments will not help “We read with interest Zhong et al’s editorial outlining a ‘pragmatist’s guide’

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  • Approaching Complex Capacity Assessments – Maudsley Masterclass
      • Contested Assessment
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      • Mental Capacity
    • Jun 07, 2019
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    In conjunction with Maudsley Learning, the Mental Health and Justice Project is running a one-day Maudsley Masterclass on ‘Approaching Complex Capacity Assessments’ on Tuesday 18th June and again on Wednesday 3rd July at the Ortus Centre, Denmark Hill, London. The Masterclass is directed at any clinician who frequently encounters issues around decision-making capacity whilst caring for their patients, and so should be particularly interesting and useful to psychiatrists. Teachers

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  • Taking capacity seriously? Ten years of mental capacity disputes before England’s Court of Protection
      • Contested Assessment
      • Output
      • Workstream 6
    • Dec 03, 2018
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    Abstract Most of the late 20th century wave of reforms in mental capacity or competence law were predicated upon the so-called ‘functional’ model of mental capacity, asking not merely whether a person had a mental disorder or disability but rather whether they were capable of making a specific decision (or decisions) at a specific point of time. This model is now

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  • Video – Annual Sowerby Lecture in Philosophy and Medicine 2017
      • Contested Assessment
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      • Legal Capacity
      • Mental Capacity
    • Dec 10, 2017
    • by   admin
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    Annual Sowerby Lecture 2017

    Mental Health and Justice: Classical and Romantic Perspectives Lecture: Dr. Gareth Owen, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Philosophy and Neuroscience 9 November 2017 New Hunt’s House, Theatre 2, Guy’s Campus With thanks to Philosophy & Medicine  

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  • Paradigm shifts or mirages?
      • Contested Assessment
      • Output
      • Workstream 6
    • Sep 27, 2017
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    • 0

    The Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the compliance of United Kingdom with the CRPD makes a very substantial number of hard-hitting, difficult to read (or refute) observations and recommendations about the ways in which the United Kingdom is letting down the rights of the disabled. Link to

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  • Hard Capacity Cases – An English Perspective and a Plea for Help
      • Contested Assessment
      • Output
      • Workstream 6
    • Sep 13, 2017
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    Alex Ruck Keene 7th August 2017

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  • Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities
      • Contested Assessment
      • Output
      • Workstream 6
    • Jun 14, 2017
    • by   admin
    • 0

    Is mental capacity in the eye of the beholder? The law, at least in England and Wales, divides adults [1] into those who have the mental capacity to make decisions and those who do not. This distinction is crucial, and underpins health and social care practice, not least as it answers the questions: (1) can

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