Independent Advocacy and Spiritual Care : Insights From Service Users, Advocates, Health Care Professionals and Chaplains

This book explores the profession of independent advocacy through a history of the practice, and provides an empirical study of its emergence in London. While advocacy has long been associated with professions such as social work and mental health nursing, this book delivers a unique perspective of advocacy through the lens of faith and culture. Using real life examples and insights from service users, advocates and spiritual care practitioners in the advocacy and chaplaincy sectors, the fascinating results offer proposals for enhanced theory, training and practice in independent advocacy. It will be of great interest for students and professionals engaged in advocacy or spiritual care. Foreword -- Preface -- Permissions -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Setting the Scene: Who Cares? Why Independent Advocacy Matters -- 1 Definition of Advocacy -- 2 Approaches Including Practical Theology -- 3 Personal Introduction -- 4 Perspectives on Professionalisation -- 5 'Speaking up for Others' -- 5.1 Instructed or Non-instructed Advocacy? -- 5.2 Differing Forms of Independent Advocacy -- 6 Advocacy and Public Policy -- 6.1 Statutory Advocacy, User Focus, and English Public Policy 2005-2015 -- 6.2 Advocacy Discussed in the British Parliament -- 6.3 Statutory Independent Advocacy: 2011 to the Present -- 6.3.1 NHS Complaints Advocacy -- 6.3.2 Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Mental Health Act 2013 and Care Act 2014 -- 6.3.3 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Cheshire West -- 6.3.4 Advocacy Training -- 7 The Argument in Brief -- 2: Selected Case Studies: Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA), Mental Health Advocacy, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS-IMCA) -- 1 IMCA and Neuro-disabilities -- 1.1 IMCAs and Clients with Acquired Brain Injuries (ABIs) -- 1.1.1 Case Study 1: Petra -- 1.1.2 Case Study 2: Alistair -- 1.2 Reflexivity and IMCA Training -- 1.3 Reflections on the IMCA Case Studies -- 2 The Growing Voice of the Advocate in Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards -- 2.1 London Borough of Hillingdon v Neary & Amor [2011] EWHC 1377 (COP) (9th June 2011) -- 3 Theme-Based Case Studies -- 3.1 Theme A: Advocacy Confronts Barriers of Stigma -- 3.2 Theme B: Advocacy Confronts Barriers of Culture -- 3.3 Theme C: Advocacy Contests Psychiatric Opinion -- 4 The Extent and Limits -- 3: A History of Advocacy -- 1 Early Modern Times -- 1.1 Origins of Independent Advocacy -- 1.2 Emergent Civil Rights for 'Lunatics' in Seventeenth-Century England Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Setting the Scene: Who Cares? Why Independent Advocacy Matters....Pages 1-34 Selected Case Studies: Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA), Mental Health Advocacy, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS-IMCA)....Pages 35-59 A History of Advocacy....Pages 61-92 Voices From the Inside—How Advocates See Their Occupation....Pages 93-133 Voices From the Outside— How Non-Advocates View Advocacy and How Advocates Address Social, Cultural and Spiritual Needs....Pages 135-180 Harmonised Voices: Advocacy Practice in the Context of Virtue and Spirituality....Pages 181-224 Spirit of Advocacy....Pages 225-234 Back Matter....Pages 235-274 Setting The Scene: Who Cares? Why Independence Advocacy Matters -- Selected Case Studies: Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (imca), Mental Health Advocacy, And Deprivation Of Liberty Safeguards (dolc-imca) -- A History Of Advocacy -- Voices From The Inside -- How Advocates See Their Occupation -- Voices From The Outside -- How Non-advocates View Advocacy And How Advocates Address Social, Cultural And Spiritual Needs -- Harmonised Voices: Advocacy Practice In The Context Of Virtue And Spirituality -- Spirit Of Advocacy. Geoff Morgan.