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Psych CASC / OSCEProfessional practice — advocacy

Psych CASC / OSCE · Professional practice — advocacy

Meeting a patient who wants to appeal — CASC advocacy and communication station

FRANZCP/MRCPsych-style station: respond to a detained patient's advocacy requests — appeal rights, advance statement, family boundaries — without collusion or paternalism, while maintaining alliance. FRANZCP W01/W08.

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Prompt
A 34-year-old man detained on an inpatient unit asks to meet you. He wants to appeal his detention, wants his sister excluded from all discussions, and wants his advance statement — written six months ago in remission — to be followed. He is guarded, angry that 'nobody reads what I wrote', and says the last admission ended with a depot he never agreed to.
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Validate the grievance, enable the appeal, honour what can be honoured in the advance statement, be honest about what cannot be guaranteed, and protect the alliance — with, not for.[4][7][12]

Candidate instructions (7 minutes)

Meet the patient. Address his three requests. Do not promise what you cannot deliver. Demonstrate advocacy without collusion or paternalism.[12]

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