The Critical AMHP Files

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October 2025
- Oct 14, 2025 Sexy Cinderella: A Quest for a 28-Day Lie Down Oct 14, 2025
September 2025
- Sep 12, 2025 We might have always done it, but we can now explain it – responding to Tim Gorvett’s piece on s13 consideration. Sep 12, 2025
July 2025
- Jul 18, 2025 SPEAKING IN PROSE & THE REDISCOVERY OF S.13(1) MHA 1983 Jul 18, 2025
June 2025
- Jun 10, 2025 Critical AMHP Interview with Vincenzo Pasante on the Trieste Model and Statutory Practice in the UK. Jun 10, 2025
April 2025
- Apr 30, 2025 Views on the AMHP contribution to Mental Health Act assessments Apr 30, 2025
March 2025
- Mar 17, 2025 AMHP efficiency and Jevons paradox Mar 17, 2025
February 2025
- Feb 21, 2025 Taking a “Cheeky Look” at Case Records: Balancing Curiosity and Ethics in AMHP Practice Feb 21, 2025
January 2025
- Jan 29, 2025 A Neurodevelopmental Perspective on Navigating Section 136: How Can Police Officers and AMHPs Help Reduce Distress? Jan 29, 2025
October 2024
- Oct 15, 2024 Warrantlessness Oct 15, 2024
September 2024
- Sep 25, 2024 S13 Consideration and Solution Focused Practice – further reflections on a very good fit. Sep 25, 2024
- Sep 6, 2024 AMHP reapproval and ‘relevant training’: A tokenistic tick-box exercise, or an opportunity for critical and radical engagement? Sep 6, 2024
August 2024
- Aug 9, 2024 The Road to Research Aug 9, 2024
July 2024
- Jul 3, 2024 Thinking Differently About the Mental Health Act Jul 3, 2024
April 2024
- Apr 26, 2024 s13 Consideration and Solution Focused Practice – the ‘why’ and the ‘how’? Apr 26, 2024
- Apr 3, 2024 What does ‘not-detainable’ really mean? Apr 3, 2024
February 2024
- Feb 29, 2024 Autonomy and AMHP Practice. Is it Dead in the Water? Feb 29, 2024
January 2024
- Jan 26, 2024 A Matter of Life and Death of the Bill Jan 26, 2024
- Jan 22, 2024 Towards a Commemoration of Matt Simpson Jan 22, 2024
December 2023
- Dec 15, 2023 New Variant AMHPing – reflections on a pandemic. Dec 15, 2023
October 2023
- Oct 20, 2023 “AMHP Number Two Please….” Oct 20, 2023
September 2023
- Sep 26, 2023 The Critical AMHP is one-year-old! Sep 26, 2023
- Sep 22, 2023 “Call the Doctor…Quick!” Assessing Children under the Mental Health Act Sep 22, 2023
July 2023
- Jul 31, 2023 ‘Dilemmas, Conundrums, and Quagmires.’ Tracing the Threads of Ethical AMHP Practice Jul 31, 2023
June 2023
- Jun 6, 2023 AMHP Practice – towards a language of deeds? Jun 6, 2023
April 2023
- Apr 29, 2023 Tolerating Uncertainty Apr 29, 2023
March 2023
- Mar 30, 2023 Is it really warranted? Mar 30, 2023
- Mar 15, 2023 Out of Area Beds {OAPs & OATs} Mar 15, 2023
February 2023
- Feb 21, 2023 Mental Health Act Assessments: No trace of race. The Role of the AMHP in antiracist practice. Feb 21, 2023
- Feb 8, 2023 AMHPersonality: Disordered? Feb 8, 2023
January 2023
- Jan 25, 2023 Compassion and empathy, or we are all “buggered”. Jan 25, 2023
- Jan 16, 2023 An AMHP Christmas miracle Jan 16, 2023
- Jan 10, 2023 Psychosis: A Quest For A New Tomorrow Jan 10, 2023
December 2022
- Dec 12, 2022 Noble calling or dirty work? - Anxiety in the AMHP role Dec 12, 2022
- Dec 2, 2022 Critical!!!.......Who’s Critical? What’s Critical? Dec 2, 2022
November 2022
- Nov 18, 2022 Taking the Leap: Reflections of a newly qualified AMHP Nov 18, 2022
- Nov 4, 2022 The AMHP Report – who is it for? Nov 4, 2022
October 2022
- Oct 21, 2022 S136 assessments – one or two doctors? Oct 21, 2022
- Oct 7, 2022 Appreciative Angst Oct 7, 2022
September 2022
- Sep 26, 2022 Approved Mental Health Professional: More than a legal role? The need for critical reflection Sep 26, 2022
- Sep 26, 2022 The Barrage of Three Sep 26, 2022
- Sep 26, 2022 An AMHP’s Journey Through s.13(1) MHA Sep 26, 2022
- Sep 26, 2022 Could these be the key elements of dialogical Mental Health Act interviewing? Sep 26, 2022