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Health and wellbeing, Mental health

What Makes a Good Assessment of Capacity?

Sets out to inform and support psychologists to make informed, sound clinical judgements and decisions across a range of sometimes very different situations.

26 April 2019

BPS Guidance

By BPS Practice Board

This document was produced by the Mental Capacity Advisory Group, a sub-group of the British Psychological Society's Professional Practice Board and has involved cross-speciality input covering a broad array of contexts in which Mental Capacity Act (MCA ) assessments may be completed by psychologists.

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