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Understanding mental capacity
Understanding mental capacity

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Sarah Vicary and Alun Morgan.

Week 1

Images

Figure 1 :Photograph: © Paul Pitman in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/ [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]

Figure 2: (top left); sturti/Getty Images ; (top right): monkeybusinessimages/Getty Images; (bottom left): Credit:monkeybusinessimages/Getty Images (bottom right): Eva Katalin Kondoros/Getty Images

Figure 3: Sasi Ponchaisang/123RF

Week 2

Images

Figure 1: Vincent Diamante in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 2.0/

Figure 3: © jessica rivera in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-sa/ 2.0/

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Video: 1.2, 2, 3.4: courtesy Social Care Institute for Excellence https://www.scie.org.uk/

Week 3

Text

Box 1: extract from: Social Care Institute for Excellence (2016) Mental Capacity Act 2005 at a glance. www.scie.org.uk/mca/introduction/mental-capacity-act-2005-at-a-glance 70

Box 2: extract from Principles of the Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 in Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/ .

Images

Figure 2: cover of Mental Capacity Act © Crown

Figure 3: cover of Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 © Crown

Figure 4: cover of Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 © Crown

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Video: Section 2.1, courtesy © Social Care Institute for Excellence https://www.scie.org.uk/

Week 4

Text

Box 1: Extract from, Valios, N. (2016) ‘Five steps to assessing capacity’, Community Care, 1 July 2016, Community Care. London..www.communitycare.co.uk/ 2016/ 07/ 01/ five-key-steps-assessing-capacity  www.communitycare.co.uk. Courtesy Natalie Valios.

Box 4: extract from, Mental Capacity Act 2005 c. 9 Part 1 Preliminary, Section 4. www.legislation.gov.uk/ ukpga/ 2005/ 9/ section/ Crown Copyright https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/

Images

Figure 1: photograph © Alan Levine in Flickr

Figure 2: ©iqoncept/123RF

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Activity 1: video, courtesy: © Social Care Institute for Excellence https://www.scie.org.uk/

Activity 3: video, courtesy: © Social Care Institute for Excellence https://www.scie.org.uk/

Week 5

Images

Figure 1: © gajus/123rf

Figure 2: © monkeybusinessimages/Getty Images

Figure 3: © Wavebreak Media Ltd/123rf

Figure 4: © Sergii Muzhchil/123rf

Figure 5: © dszc/Getty Images

Figure 6: © jeremyiswild/Getty Images

Figure 7: © somethingway/Getty Images

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Activity 2: video, BBC news TX: 17.10.85 © BBC

Activity 3: video, courtesy: © Social Care Institute for Excellence https://www.scie.org.uk/

Activity 4: video, courtesy: © Social Care Institute for Excellence https://www.scie.org.uk/

Activity 5: video, Taylor’s Story: courtesy: © The Children’s Society https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/

Week 6

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Activity 1: video, courtesy: Mencap https://www.mencap.org.uk/

Activity 2: video, courtesy: Change People http://www.changepeople.org/

Activity 5: audio, extract from BBC Radio 4 file on 4 first broadcast 13 September 2016 © BBC

Activity 6: video, courtesy: Department for Communities and Local Government https://www.gov.uk/government

Week 7

Images

Figure 1: ©Tommaso Lizzul /123rf

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Activity 2: videos, 2 extracts from BBC series Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes? © BBC 2009

3.3: video: courtesy: GN Law https://www.gnlaw.co.uk/

Week 8

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Figure 1: © bubaone/Getty Images

Figure 2: © szefei/123rf

Figure 3: © Ilkefoto/Getty

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