Jeff Cohen Advice and Training

JCAT Training Days

The following topics are examples of what we can offer. Each can be run for a half or whole day.

• The Mental Health Act: everything you need to know for everyday practice
• An update on mental health law: including the impact of the amendments to the Mental Health Act
• The Mental Capacity Act 2005: the legal framework and practical implications
• The Mental Capacity Act: a further understanding (an examination of aspects of the Act in more depth)
• The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
• Making Decisions for Children and Young People: the legal framework (the interface between the Children Acts, the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act - including the new duty to provide an age appropriate environment)
• Mental Health Tribunals: legal framework, powers and decision making; providing written and oral evidence
• Compulsory admission to hospital:
  • Part II of the Mental Health Act (civil admissions)
• Part III of the Mental Act (mentally disordered offenders)
• Community powers: Community Treatment Orders , Guardianship, S. 17 leave" Capacity and consent to treatment
• Hospital Manager's powers and duties
• Making human rights a reality in mental health settings
• Risk assessment and risk management
• Personality disorders
• Approaches to caring for people with dementia
• Hearing Voices, Paranoid Ideas and Unusual Beliefs: Roads to Recovery

The sessions would provide ideal refresher training for Approved Mental Health Professionals, Section 12 Approved Doctors and Approved Clinicians. Bespoke packages can be arranged to meet your needs.