Jessica L H Fish
Biographic Data
| ID | 6575078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica L H Fish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica L H |
| FAMILY NAME | Fish |
| SIGNATURE | FISH J L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0687-2945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wrong touch regulation
Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) hold essential decision-making authority on whether individuals will be subject to compulsory detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended 2007) in England and Wales. Despite exercising profound coercive powers affecting individual liberty, the regulatory architecture surrounding AMHP practice is fragmented and diffuse, with oversight distributed across the Care Quality Commission, Social Wor…
Genericism and managerialism
The Mental Health Act as amended 2007 democratised who could qualify for the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) role to include not only social workers, but psychologists, occupational therapists, and nurses. The amendments raised questions on how to appropriately train AMHPs from the professional groups without social work education to have adequate skills and decision-making capacity when considering the use of compulsory powers. Essent…
The lost social perspective
The ‘social perspective’ was inserted into the Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice (2008a) to ensure that skills and perspectives associated with the Approved Social Worker (ASW) were adequately transferred to the broadened role of Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). Nonetheless, there is a lack of clear guidance on how the ‘social perspective’ should be enacted in AMHP practice which causes several misalignments with how AMHPs balanc…
The lost social perspective
The ‘social perspective’ was inserted into the Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice (2008a) to ensure that skills and perspectives associated with the Approved Social Worker (ASW) were adequately transferred to the broadened role of Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). Nonetheless, there is a lack of clear guidance on how the ‘social perspective’ should be enacted in AMHP practice which causes several misalignments with how AMHPs balanc…
Genericism and managerialism
The Mental Health Act as amended 2007 democratised who could qualify for the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) role to include not only social workers, but psychologists, occupational therapists, and nurses. The amendments raised questions on how to appropriately train AMHPs from the professional groups without social work education to have adequate skills and decision-making capacity when considering the use of compulsory powers. Essent…
The lost social perspective
The ‘social perspective’ was inserted into the Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice (2008a) to ensure that skills and perspectives associated with the Approved Social Worker (ASW) were adequately transferred to the broadened role of Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). Nonetheless, there is a lack of clear guidance on how the ‘social perspective’ should be enacted in AMHP practice which causes several misalignments with how AMHPs balanc…
Wrong touch regulation
Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) hold essential decision-making authority on whether individuals will be subject to compulsory detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended 2007) in England and Wales. Despite exercising profound coercive powers affecting individual liberty, the regulatory architecture surrounding AMHP practice is fragmented and diffuse, with oversight distributed across the Care Quality Commission, Social Wor…
Mental health (3 works) · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (2 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)