Mental Capacity
Mental Capacity Training helps healthcare and social care professionals understand mental capacity, supported decision-making, consent, human rights, and autonomy under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 in Ireland. It covers capacity assessment, future care planning, confidentiality, restraint, and safeguards for deprivation of liberty.
Learning Outcomes
What you'll learn
- Understand mental capacity, consent, autonomy, human rights, and supported decision-making in healthcare.
- Explain the principles and requirements of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 in Ireland.
- Apply the two-stage functional test when assessing a person’s capacity for a specific decision at a specific time.
- Recognise appropriate decision-making supports, advance healthcare directives, confidentiality requirements, restraint, and safeguards for deprivation of liberty.
- Understand how to respect a person’s will, preferences, dignity, and rights while maintaining accurate documentation and following appropriate legal and professional procedures.
Learning Outcomes
What you'll learn
- Understand mental capacity, consent, autonomy, human rights, and supported decision-making in healthcare.
- Explain the principles and requirements of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 in Ireland.
- Apply the two-stage functional test when assessing a person’s capacity for a specific decision at a specific time.
- Recognise appropriate decision-making supports, advance healthcare directives, confidentiality requirements, restraint, and safeguards for deprivation of liberty.
- Understand how to respect a person’s will, preferences, dignity, and rights while maintaining accurate documentation and following appropriate legal and professional procedures.
Modules
Module 1
What Do We Mean by 'Capacity'?
Module 2
Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Legal Framework and Capacity Assessment
Module 3
Consent, Advocacy, and Powers of Attorney
Module 4
Planning for Future Care, Confidentiality, and Record-Keeping
Module 5
Restraint, Disagreement Resolution, and the Court of Protection
Module 6
Liberty Protection Safeguards
Module 7
Summary
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Frequently Asked Questions
Mental Capacity Training helps healthcare professionals understand capacity assessment, supported decision-making, consent, autonomy, and the rights of people who may lack capacity.
The course covers mental capacity assessment, consent, supported decision-making, advance healthcare directives, confidentiality, restraint, and safeguards under Irish law.
The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 provides an Irish legal framework that promotes autonomy, supported decision-making, and respect for a person’s will and preferences.
Mental Capacity Training is suitable for healthcare professionals, social care workers, carers, and others involved in supporting people with decision-making and capacity needs.
A mental capacity assessment determines whether a person can understand, retain, use or weigh relevant information, and communicate a decision about a specific matter at a particular time.