You can grant a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) to another person (or people) to enable them to make decisions about your health and welfare, or decisions about your property and financial affairs. They have also produced a joint leaflet with answers to some of the most common questions you may have. The team in charge of your treatment can't give your family information about you without asking you first. You can choose what they share. This is called giving consent. We learn to make room for painful feelings, thoughts, and sensations - allowing them to be there, coming and going without us struggling against them. Is it our relationships, e .g. to be a good parent? Is it our careers, connecting with nature, healthy living, community service or making a difference? Consider what legacy you want to pass on.

The Mental Capacity Act applies to all professions – doctors, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, healthcare assistants, and support staff. Mindfulness is a way of observing our experience, in the present moment, without judgement. Mindfulness helps us 'defuse' - to distance ourselves from unhelpful thoughts, reactions and sensations. See if you can get into the psychological space of your observing self and, from that space, notice what your thoughts are doing.” If our clients start talking about right, wrong, good, or bad, we know they have shifted from values into the realm of morals, ethics, or codes of conduct. The most prominent exercise in ACT mindfulness is the Leaves on a Stream meditation described above.An Enduring Power of Attorney (EPA) under the previous law was restricted to making decisions over property and affairs, which includes financial affairs and accessing the person's information. Find out who can make decisions for you and how you can give them the right to make these decisions. Also find out what decisions they can't make for you. If your human rights haven't been respected, you should first try to resolve it informally, then use a formal complaints procedure, and if that fails you can take legal action by going to court. You should always get legal advice before going to court.

Changes to when and how people will be asked to contribute towards the cost of support which has been arranged in conjunction with their local authorityLeave means being able to leave the ward you're detained in. There are different kinds of leave, and sometimes you might have to go with staff. Find out who decides your leave. A greater emphasis on prevention - local authorities and other providers of support will encourage and assist people to lead healthy lives which will reduce the chances of them needing more support in the future It’s important to remember that values change. Try not to think of them as books that line up nicely on a bookshelf. They will continually shift and change positions. What was important yesterday, may no longer have any meaning for you today. What’s more, things that are key in one area of your life i.e. work may be completely irrelevant in others (i.e. relationships).

ACT helps you develop psychological skills to deal with your painful thoughts and feelings more effectively, in such a way that they have much less impact and influence over you.”

But the final decision must always allow the original purpose of the decision or act to be achieved. To wit, ‘acceptance’, as reflected in mindfulness procedure, induces relaxation, which is marked by a feeling of pleasure as reflected by opioid release. ‘Commitment’, as reflected by the continuous pursuit and apprehension of positive values, produces a feeling of attentive arousal that is reflected by the release of the neuromodulator dopamine. Dopamine and opioid neurons are adjacent to each other in the midbrain, and when simultaneously activated stimulate each other, or are synergistic. This results in a heightened feeling of pleasure and arousal or joy, and reinforces a commitment to a meaningful lifestyle. This can be easily demonstrated procedurally, not to mention providing an easy way of falsifying my argument. ACT practitioners believe you cannot control anything except your behavior. We consider thoughts and emotions transient events that arise and wash over us like waves with no necessary action. We can’t control how we think or feel, but we can control how we act. The hexaflex is a hexagonally shaped visual aid for classifying and treating client problems holistically. Each of the six domains corresponds to one of the core ACT principles, all of which have various activities and exercises to help the practitioner push their clients along. Using this tool, the therapist or coach can choose a starting point for their therapy intervention. If you’re looking for more science-based ways to help others enjoy the benefits of mindfulness, this collection contains 17 validated mindfulness tools for practitioners. Use them to help others reduce stress and create positive shifts in their mental, physical, and emotional health.