PGCert Mental Health Law and Ethics

Edge Hill University

Postgraduate

In Ormskirk

£ 3001-4000

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Ormskirk

  • Duration

    1 Year

This course is aimed at professionals working in mental health settings. It will enable you to develop your understanding of the complex legal and ethical frameworks that apply to mental health practice. The programme will strengthen your knowledge and skills in engaging with clients’ legal and ethical needs and the structured and supportive framework will help you apply your learning in the workplace.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Ormskirk (Lancashire)
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St Helens Road, L39 4QP

Start date

On request

About this course

The course is designed to assist professionals to demonstrate achievement and progression within the knowledge and skills framework and will assist practitioners to move up the skill escalator.

The course is especially relevant to practitioners working within newly constructed advanced practice roles – Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP), Approved Clinician (AC) and Responsible Clinician (RC) – within mental health services.

You need to be working in a professional role within a mental health setting in order to fulfil the learning outcomes of the programme. This work-based access could be either on a voluntary basis or in your workplace.

The normal minimum entry requirement is a lower second-class honours degree in a health or social care related-related subject. The focus for the programme is to link theory to practice; you are expected to be working in an environment that allows you to meet the learning outcomes of the course. All applicants will be offered an academic interview prior to commencement of the

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Subjects

  • Mental Health
  • Law
  • IT Law
  • Mental Health Law
  • Ethics
  • Mental Health Arena
  • Bioethical Theories
  • Decision Making
  • Clinical Practice
  • Nurses
  • Psychologists
  • Therapists
  • Mental Health Practice

Course programme

What will I study?

In the first taught module, you will study the legal frameworks that apply to mental health settings which need to be considered when working with users of mental health services. This module will facilitate and further develop a critical awareness of the many complex areas relating to mental health law, and move you towards a position of defensible rather than defensive practices.

The second taught module involves considering the ethical dilemmas and challenges that can face practitioners working in the mental health arena and in particular the relationship between bioethical theories and the law. A work-based learning module concludes the programme and allows you to apply what you have learnt to your practice.

HEA4034 Negotiated Learning Shell (20 credits)

HEA4195 Ethics, The Law and Decision Making (20 credits)

HEA9085 Mental Health Law and Defensible Practice (20 credits)

Additional information

Tuition Fees
Tuition fees for studying on this Postgraduate Certificate are £32 per credit for UK and EU students enrolling on the programme in academic year 2017/18, i.e. £640 per 20 credit module. 60 credits are required to complete a Postgraduate Certificate. Please note, the University may administer a small inflationary rise in part-time postgraduate tuition fees in subsequent academic years as you progress through the course.

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