Written Essay of a Critical Incident accesses learning outcomes 1,2,3 and 4

Using a critical incident from practice, critically explore the underpinning legislative, ethical, or values based processes that would impact upon the patient's recovery care needs demonstrating
a new approach to practice which will be at the forefront of your professional practice.

Formative Assessment: Students will be provided with the opportunity for formative feedback informally throughout the module, through tutorial support and study group processes.

During this module the following topics will be explored:

The indicative content will include:
- Mental Health Legislation, Human rights, the historical developments relevant to mental health and illness concepts, philosophies, principles and perspectives underpinning and affecting legislation, and the impact of changing policy on practice.
- Consent and capacity, sectioning, confidentiality.
- Ethical frameworks, the role of ethics within shaping clinical practice and service redesign, interaction between values, beliefs and ethical frameworks.
- Ethical issues pertaining to the key stages to the clinical process - psychopathology, classification, diagnosis and aetiology.
- Values based practice, vulnerable adults working with values of clinical management processes.

The learning strategy employed within this module is centred upon the interactive assessment strategies employed by other post-graduate modules, which means that the student will be involved in the learning process, in the form of problem-based learning. The general mode of delivering this module is through:

Contact Hours:
40% Interactive Lectures
40% Group/Individual activities/reflection
20% Feedback from activities
Independent Learning
20% Self Analysis
40% Reading and Reflection
40% Writing assignment.

Library Facilities
Study Skills Groups
Tutorial Support / Peer support
Access to computer and internet
Utilising email facilities
Blackboard

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Brown, R, Mckee, H., Trensaden, I., Puri, BK (2005) Mental Health Law: a practice guide, Hodder Arnold, ISBN 0340885033
Fulford - KVM, (2004) Ten principles of values- based medicine, In: Radden, J, The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A companion - international perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry USA, Oxford University Press. ISBN: 10: 019514953X
www.rcgp.org.uk/pdf/educ_ethico AndrBPsfRCGP Council Dec 2005pdf