Is your mental illness causing your mental or physical health to get worse? Is it causing the • chance of harm to you or another person? Or is there something else going on that might be causing these things? Is there another way of stopping these things from happening that does not involve treatment? • What has happened in the past when you were not treated? • Your answers: (Write your thoughts here.) Your evidence that backs up your answers: (List your evidence here.) Your notes about the treatment evidence: (What does it say about treatment? What does it team’s say about your mental or physical health getting worse? Or about you or another person being harmed? What are your thoughts about this evidence? Are there any mistakes or errors? Is the evidence recent or is it old and maybe out of date?) Worksheet 3 treatment criterion three – Immediate treatment will be given on a treatment order This is a simpler criterion. The tribunal will generally not spend too much time on it. The tribunal members may ask you about what treatment are you have been given since you have been on the order. They may also ask you or your doctors what treatment you might get in the near future. Your answers: (Write your thoughts here.) Worksheet 4 treatment criterion four – There are no less restrictive means, reasonably available, for you to receive the immediate treatment Does this criterion apply to you? The tribunal wants to know whether you would you take treatment without a treatment order if it were up completely up to you. If you would keep getting treatment without a treatment order, this criterion is not met. You could consider appointing a nominated person or creating an advance statement as the tribunal will take the views of the nominated person and your advance statement into account. What might the tribunal members ask you? The tribunal members may ask you questions about treatment, your supports in the community and what you would do if you became unwell again. Questions about treatment: If you were not on a treatment order and free to make your own decisions, would you: • stay at the hospital as a voluntary patient? Why? continue the treatment? Why?
• Is your mental illness causing your mental or physical health to get worse? Is it causing the chance of harm to you or another person? Or is there something else going on that might be causing these things? • Is there another way of stopping these things from happening that does not involve treatment? • What has happened in the past when you were not treated? Your answers: (Write your thoughts here.) Your evidence that backs up your answers: (List your evidence here.) Your notes about the treatment team’s evidence: (What does it say about treatment? What does it say about your mental or physical health getting worse? Or about you or another person being harmed? What are your thoughts about this evidence? Are there any mistakes or errors? Is the evidence recent or is it old and maybe out of date?) Worksheet 3 – treatment criterion three Immediate treatment will be given on a treatment order This is a simpler criterion. The tribunal will generally not spend too much time on it. The tribunal members may ask you about what treatment are you have been given since you have been on the order. They may also ask you or your doctors what treatment you might get in the near future. Your answers: (Write your thoughts here.) Worksheet 4 – treatment criterion four There are no less restrictive means, reasonably available, for you to receive the immediate treatment Does this criterion apply to you? The tribunal wants to know whether you would you take treatment without a treatment order if it were up completely up to you. If you would keep getting treatment without a treatment order, this criterion is not met. You could consider appointing a nominated person or creating an advance statement as the tribunal will take the views of the nominated person and your advance statement into account. What might the tribunal members ask you? The tribunal members may ask you questions about treatment, your supports in the community and what you would do if you became unwell again. Questions about treatment: • If you were not on a treatment order and free to make your own decisions, would you: stay at the hospital as a voluntary patient? Why? continue the treatment? Why?
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