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An Introduction to Human Rights for Clinical Psychologists Human Rights Giving Psychology a backbone Clinical Psychologys core values are highly congruent with a Human Rights Based Approach  ID: 583493

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Slide1

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)