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Expertise and experience
— people with experiences of using services and carers' views of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 | | Author(s) | Jill Manthorpe, Joan Rapaport, Nicky Stanley |
| Journal title | British Journal of Social Work, vol 39, no 5, August 2009 |
| Pages | pp 884-900 |
| Source | http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Attitude ; Services ; Usage [services] ; Mental disorder ; Law ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The views of people with experiences of using services and the views of their carers about the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (which applies to England and Wales) are reported in this article. Interviews with 10 people about the detail of the Act prior to its implementation revealed that they welcomed the principles of the Act, and were able to relate these to aspects of their experiences. The Act's framework for planning around care and treatment for making advance decisions was seen as offering greater choice and empowerment. Comments were made about the need for the Act to be publicised by professionals, for practitioners to provide specific information for people with experiences of using services, and carers to be included in training and monitoring. The data also revealed some concerns about implementation processes, about missed opportunities for legislative reform, and the difficulty of balancing risks and safeguards. Such issues are likely to be highly relevant to social work practice; social workers are alerted to the expertise existing among many people with experience of using services and to the variations in opinion and knowledge likely to be found among people using services and carers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090903224 A |
| Classmark | P6: DP: I: QLD: E: VR: 3F |
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