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Human Rights and Clinical Practice
An Introduction to Human Rights for Clinical Psychologists Slide2
Human Rights:
‘Giving
Psychology a
backbone’
Clinical Psychology’s core values are highly congruent with a Human Rights Based Approach (
HRBA)
Human rights ensure what we do has legal backbone
Human
rights are a key theme in recent
policy
Human rights link disparate concepts
together
Human
rights inform our professional code of ethics
Human
rights offer a shared multidisciplinary
language
Human
rights set standards for
the Care Quality Commission (CQC)Slide3
Human
Rights, the Law and Policy
Human Rights Law is
primary legislation
.
The Human Rights Act (HRA)
requires that
new legislation should be compatible with it, or if not, ministers must explain the incompatibility to Parliament.
The Mental Capacity Act (2005) and Mental Health Act (1983, amended 2007) are strongly informed by the Human Rights Act.
The guiding principles of the Mental Health Act
d
raw on the Human Rights Act (Department of Health, 2015)
Key recent health policy documents also use or refer to a human rights framework:
The NHS constitution
(Department of Health,
2013)
Positive and Proactive Care (Department of Health, 2014): Restraint reduction Slide4
Human Rights Based Approach
Using Human Rights to Integrate FrameworksSlide5
Human Rights and Ethics for Psychologists: BPS
Code of Ethics & Conduct (2009)
Psychological
approaches depend on a professional commitment to the underlying philosophy of human rights, of promoting autonomy, dignity and respectPsychologists are explicitly
required to give ‘particular regard to people’s rights including those of privacy and
self-determination’
We are also
obliged to ‘evaluate the rights, responsibilities and welfare of all clients and stakeholders’ in ethical decision making (BPS Code of Ethics and Conduct, 2009). Slide6
Human rights offer a shared multidisciplinary language
Psychologically informed thinking, practice and culture within teams and services can be built using the shared language of human rights.
The
professional bodies of other disciplines are charged with upholding human rights principles (Royal College of Psychiatrist’s Special Committee on Human Rights)
Other professional bodies
have operationalised rights perspectives through position statements (Royal College of Nursing, 2012; World Federation of Occupational Therapists, 2006). Slide7
Human
Rights and the Care Quality Commission
The CQC
takes a human rights based approach to the regulation of care services
.
One of the CQC’s principles is to ‘
To
promote equality, diversity and human
rights’ The CQC aims to ‘provide people with safe, effective, compassionate and high-quality care’ The FREDA principles (Fairness, Respect, Equality, Dignity, Autonomy) are integrated into the questions it asks of service providersThe CQC also specifically considers the ‘Right to life’ and the ‘Rights of
staff’.(Care Quality Commission, 2014)