Robert Brown is a social worker and a Director of Edge Training and Consultancy Ltd. He provides refresher training for AMHPs and helps to train Section 12 Approved Doctors and Approved Clinicians in South West England and Wales. He provides consultation and supervision services to Cornwall, Guernsey, Hampshire, Jersey and Reading. Rob has published widely in the field of mental health and mental capacity law; co-authoring The Mental Health Capacity Act 2005: a Guide to Practice as well as Mental Health Law in England and Wales. He was a Mental Health Act Commissioner from 1992-2010. Prior to that, Rob worked as a Mental Health Welfare Officer and then an Approved Social Worker with Hampshire County Council. He has been a lecturer at Southampton University, Stirling University and Croydon College. Rob is a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University and was a finalist in the British Social Work Awards 2013, Lifetime Achievement category.

Chapter 1: Introduction and definitions of mental disorder
Chapter 2: Civil admissions, guardianship and community treatment orders
Chapter 3: Relatives and carers
Chapter 4: The role of the approved mental health professional
Chapter 5: Patients concerned in criminal proceedings
Chapter 6: Consent to treatment and mental capacity
Chapter 7: Mental health tribunals and hospital managers' reviews
Chapter 8: The Care Quality Commission for England and the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales
Chapter 9: Other relevant legislation
Chapter 10: The Human Rights Act 1998
Chapter 11: The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Appendix 1 Checklists for applications and forms
Appendix 2 The Human Rights Act 1998
Appendix 3 The Mental Health Act 1983: sections relevant to AMHPs
Appendix 4A The AMHP Regulations for England
Appendix 4B The AMHP Regulations for Wales
Appendix 5 Forms used in England and Wales
Appendix 6 Tasks for AMHPs involved in MHA assessments (answers)
Appendix 7 Practice Direction (First-tier Tribunal) (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) Statements and Reports in Mental Health Cases
Appendix 8 The Conflicts of Interest Regulations for England
Appendix 9 Multiple choice answers
Appendix 10 Supervision Orders under the Criminal Procedures (Insanity) Act 1964
Appendix 11 Suggested documentation for Regulation 24
Appendix 12: The Mental Health Act 1983 (Places of Safety) Regulations 2017