Pre-Interview Task: Guidance for Writing up a Mental Health Act Assessment Shadow

Name: Form P6

AMHP Course: Pre-Interview Task: Write up & reflection on a shadowed MH Act Assessment.

Name: Form P6

Pre-Interview Task Continued:

PRE-INTERVIEW TASK: GUIDANCE FOR WRITING UP A MENTAL HEALTH ACT ASSESSMENT SHADOW

Candidates must write up a reflective account of one of the Mental Health Act assessments that they have shadowed in preparation for the AMHP course. They must submit this piece of work together with the application form. It should be approximately two sides of A4 and as well as commenting on the assessment itself and the implications for those involved, a particular focus should be placed on demonstrating a critical understanding of a range of models of mental disorder, including the contribution of social factors.

Please anonymise the case and provide appropriate referencing of reading and material used in the write up. This case will be discussed at interview.

Suggested reading for course preparation (you are not expected to have read all these!)

Barnes, M & Bowl, R (2001) / Taking over the asylum. Empowerment and Mental Health. / Palgrave.
Department of Health (2002) / Developing Services for Carers and Families of people with mental illness: / DH.
Fernando, S (1995) Mental / Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society. / Routledge.
Langan, J & Lindow, V (2004) / Living with Risk. Mental Health Service User Involvement in Risk Assessment and Management. / Bristol Policy Press.
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority (2003) / Independent Inquiry into the death of David Bennett.
Mental Health Act Commission (2003) / Tenth Biennial Report (2001-2003) Placed Amongst Strangers. / London, TSO.
Rankin, J (2004) / Mental Health in the Mainstream. Developments and Trends in Mental Health Policy. / (Rethink) Ippr.
Ryan, T and Pritchard, J (2004) / Good Practice in Adult Mental Health. / Jessica Kingsley.
Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (2002) / Breaking the Circles of Fear: A review of the relationship between mental health services and African and Caribbean communities. / Sainsbury Centre,
Social Exclusion Unit (2004) / Mental Health and Social exclusion. / Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Tew, J (2005) / Social Perspectives in Mental Health. Developing Social Models to understand and work with mental distress. / Jessica Kingsley.
Williams, J (2004) / Social Work, Liberty and the Law. / In British Journal of Social Work (2004) 34, p 37-52.

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