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MENTAL HEALTH (CARE AND TREATMENT) (SCOTLAND) ACT 2003
TRANSITIONAL TRAINING MATERIALS

INTRODUCTORY TRAINING FOR MENTAL HEALTH OFFICERS AND OTHER PRACTITIONERS
TRAINERS' GUIDE

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CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Who should be a trainer?
Discussion of the experience needed to qualify as a trainer.

2. What is required of trainers by way of preparation?
Discussion of expectations of the trainer in implementing the materials.

3. What is the optimum size of training group for the five-day event?
Discussion of the numbers who may attend an event and optimum size of groups.

4. General features common to Models A and B.
Discussion of two means of arranging the delivery.

5. Special use of Session 1:
Discussion of separate, more general use of the first study day.

6. Who might attend Session 1?

7. Discussion of case the studies.
General considerations of how to implement the case studies.

8. Small Group Discussion and Large Group Feedback.
Discussion of how to manage small group discussion and large group feedback.

9. Session 1. Discussion of how to introduce and present the first study day. Sample answers to the case study questions of the first study day.

10. Session 2. As above.

11. Session 3. As above.

12. Session 4. As above.

13. What next? Discussion of how to use the evaluation forms.

Annex A Template for taking notes for the exercise in session 4
Annex B Template for evaluation forms
Annex C Alternative case study.

FOREWORD

This is part of a package of training materials commissioned by the Scottish Executive. It was developed by Mike Maas-Lowit of Robert Gordon University who was assisted in this process by a multi-disciplinary Advisory Group drawn from services across Scotland and chaired by the Scottish Executive.

The training material is geared primarily to assisting Mental Health Officers gain knowledge of their new statutory roles and duties which have been expanded considerably in the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003. The material, however, is organised in such a way as to be of value to others involved in implementing the new legislation. Ideally, wherever possible, training will be delivered on a joint basis.

By necessity the material had to be developed before the Code of Practice, Regulations and Forms had been finalised. References made are generally to draft versions of each (e.g. Volume 1 of the Draft Code of Practice published in March 2004 and Volumes 2 and 3 in June 2004). This material should not be taken as a definitive, legal interpretation of statute. Practitioners should refer to primary legislation and the associated Codes of Practice and seek their own legal advice when questions on implementation and/or interpretation arise.

All should feel free to reproduce any of the material included in the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 Transitional Training Guide series, although the name of the author and the publication from which it came should always be clearly stated. All the material can be downloaded from the Scottish Executive's mental health law website: www.scotland.gov.uk/health/mentalhealthlaw

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