Glossary

The Alliance guide to mental health jargon

A-G

  • Advance directive
  • Advance statement
  • Advocate
  • Aftercare
  • AMHP (Approved Mental Health Practitioner)
  • ASW (Approved Social Worker)
  • Assessment
  • BNF (British National Formulary)
  • Carer
  • Care Plan
  • Clinical Supervisor
  • CPA (Care Programme Approach)
  • CMHT (Community Mental Health Team)
  • CTO (community treatment order)
  • Conditions
  • ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights
  • ECT (electro-convulsive therapy)
  • Examination
  • Exclusions
  • Expert Panel

H-Z

  • Human Rights Act
  • Impaired decision-making
  • Learning disability
  • Least restrictive alternative
  • Mental Capacity Act 2005
  • Mental disorder
  • Mental Health Order
  • MHRT (Mental Health Review Tribunal)
  • Mental Health Tribunal (MHT)
  • MHAC (Mental Health Act Commission)
  • Nearest relative
  • Nominated person
  • NRO (non-resident order)
  • Part III
  • Personality Disorder (PD)
  • Place of safety
  • Principles
  • Psychiatrist
  • Psychologist (Also known as a Clinical Psychologist)
  • Psychosurgery
  • Reciprocity
  • Restriction Order
  • RMO (Responsible Medical Officer)
  • Therapeutic benefit
  • Treatability test
  • Treatment plan
  • Tribunal