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Mental Elf
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Mitigating the risk of assumptions and biases in assessments of mental capacity: A brief for policy makers and mental health professionals. A live streamed webinar with Dr Sophie Stammers, Prof Lisa Bortolotti and Mark Brown. Mental health and social care professionals routinely assess the capacity of people to make decisions about their lives, in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA). The briefing note outlines how the functional approach to testing capacity in the MCA underdetermines decisions, describing the risks for stereotypes and assumptions to affect outcomes. It advocates for the need for specific training for professionals using the MCA to enable them to recognise the role of value judgements in capacity decisions, to mitigate the effects of stereotyping and assumptions, and to improve decision making. Live tweets https://elfi.sh/MentalCapacity2020-tw... Blog https://elfi.sh/MentalCapacity2020-blog Briefing https://elfi.sh/MentalCapacity2020-br... ...more
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Mitigating the risk of assumptions and biases in assessments of mental capacity: A brief for policy makers and mental health professionals. A live streamed webinar with Dr Sophie Stammers, Prof Lisa Bortolotti and Mark Brown. Mental health and social care professionals routinely assess the capacity of people to make decisions about their lives, in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA). The briefing note outlines how the functional approach to testing capacity in the MCA underdetermines decisions, describing the risks for stereotypes and assumptions to affect outcomes. It advocates for the need for specific training for professionals using the MCA to enable them to recognise the role of value judgements in capacity decisions, to mitigate the effects of stereotyping and assumptions, and to improve decision making. Live tweets https://elfi.sh/MentalCapacity2020-tw... Blog https://elfi.sh/MentalCapacity2020-blog Briefing https://elfi.sh/MentalCapacity2020-br...

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Mental Elf

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