This theme applies research and knowledge exchange to:
- Care, treatment and other support
- Policing, public health and criminal justice
Knowledge exchange is the two-way exchange between researchers and research-users to share ideas, research evidence, experiences and skills. It is the process through which academic ideas and insights are shared and helps make research and knowledge more accessible to people.
Our approach to mental health practice, policy and law evaluation review and reform involves the people who support those with mental health conditions. For example, <insert example about care and treatment being provided in safe way for service users>.
We also collaborate with criminal public health bodies and policing to work better together on prevention and early intervention, recognising that most police work is rooted in complex social need.
Explore research activities in the Practice, Policy and Law Evaluation, Review and Reform – Applying Research and Knowledge Exchange theme. Names shown indicate authors or co-authors involved from the Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research.
The use of non-consensual intervention in mental health care has received growing attention in recent years, with increasing calls for the use of alternatives and less restrictive practice. This project examines the practicality of reducing non-consensual intervention by undertaking a comprehensive systematic review of legal, practical and ethical approaches. This work has identified a series of impactful approaches that are established in theory, however lack evidence and practical application, and therefore, it is currently unclear how they should and would be applied in practice. In order to understand their practical application, a series of small Delphi surveys will be carried out to clarify how experts of each approach would navigate clinical scenarios and processes. This PhD thesis aims to inform ongoing reforms in law, policy and practice in relation to non-consensual intervention in mental health care.
Amy Zarins is a third year PhD student at Edinburgh Napier University.
The Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR) in partnership with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Scottish Ambulance Service is providing funding to support a Rapid Research Project which will explore collaboration between Fire, Ambulance and Police Services. We are seeking an exploration of the how cross-service collaboration, including placed-based approaches, can help improve community safety and wellbeing and help reduce social and health inequalities.
Prof Inga Heyman and Prof Nadine Dougall are Co-Directors of the Scottish Centre for Policing & Public Health (SCLEPH), an international academic and practice collaboration with external stakeholders of Police Scotland, Mental Health Foundation Scotland, the Global Law Enforcement & Public Health Association (GLEPHA), and the Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health (CLEPH, Melbourne, Australia), amongst others.
The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland plays an integral role in guaranteeing the rights of patients with mental disorder .
This project undertook a Scotland-wide study of the experience of patients, Named Persons, health and social care practitioners and Tribunal panel members. This provided a valuable and unique understanding into whether current legislative principles and Tribunal practices operate in accordance with relevant international human rights standards and for the benefit of patients. It further identified and made evidence-based recommendations to ensure its practices evolve to meet these challenges. As other countries are being required to review their laws in accordance with developing human rights standards the findings of such research will be of interest to the Tribunal itself and to legislators, civil servants, practitioners, patients and carers in Scotland, across the rest of the UK and in other countries.
Prof Jill Stavert, lead of the Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research, led this project in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast. Her areas of research and expertise are international, European and national human rights and mental health and mental capacity law and related law, policy and practice review and reform.
The Scottish Mental Health Law Review (2019-2022) was an independent review, commissioned by the Scottish Government, of Scottish mental health, capacity and adult protection (safeguarding) law with the objective of making recommendations to improve the rights and protections of persons with a mental disorder and remove barriers to those caring for their health and welfare.
- Strengthening the voice of people who use services and those who care for them.
- Reducing the need for coercion in the mental health system
- Securing rights to the help and support needed to live a good life.
Prof Jill Stavert and Prof Colin McKay are professors of Mental Health and Capacity Law and were members of the Review’s Executive Team. Prof Jill Stavert is lead for the Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research.