Expanding roles within mental health legislation: an opportunity for professional growth or a missed opportunity?

Hurley, John and Linsley, Paul (2007) Expanding roles within mental health legislation: an opportunity for professional growth or a missed opportunity? Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 14 (6). pp. 535-541. ISSN 1351-0126

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Abstract

This paper aims to highlight both the necessity, and the way forward for mental health nursing to integrate proposed legislative roles into practice. Argued is that community mental health nursing, historically absent from active participation within mental health law in the UK, is faced with new and demanding roles under proposed changes to the 1983 Mental Health Act of England and Wales. While supporting multidisciplinary training for such roles, the imperative of incorporating nursing specific values into consequent training programs is addressed through the offered educative framework. This framework explores the issues of power, ethics, legislative thematics and application to contemporary service structures.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	education,mental health law,nursing,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
Related URLs:	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 May 2017 05:05
Last Modified:	06 Jun 2024 14:58
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/63433
DOI:	10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01124.x

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