• Social Work

Practice

I qualified in social work ( CQSW and BA) in 1984. I worked initially in England but since 1986, I have worked in Scotland. I was  a generic social worker in Grampian and then Central Regional Councils. I became a Mental Health Officer in 1998 and a Practice Teacher in 1989.  I further developed  my knowledge  of mental distress  by transferring to a psychiatric hospital.  In 1993 I took up the post of community care team manager  with Central Regional Council  and then Falkirk Council.  

Teaching and course development

I joined the University in 1997 as a Teaching Fellow to help set up the post graduate community care course as well as lead teaching on community care and mental health for the social work qualifying programmes. Also I have devised and assisted in CPD training for local authorities and NHS staff . In 2002. I was contracted to the Dementria Centre for six months to lead in the transfer of the MSc. in Dementia Studies from a traditional to a mixed mode distance learning course. In 2004 I helped to establish the  Grad. Cert. in Community Care and was Course Director for its first year. In 2009 I evaluated  this porgramme and contributed to development of what is now the Adult Care Service Certificate.  My substantive posts means that my main focus is now  on the MSc. and BA (Hons) Social Work Programmes and I have been the course director of the BA programme for three years.  I currently  coordinate and teach on the social work law and policy modules. Additionally I contribute to teaching on social work ethics and values and working within and  across organisations.  I have kept in touch with Mental Health Officer work through being an External Examiner for Scottish MHO courses since 2002. 

Research and Writing

I gained an MSc. in Applied Social Research in 2002 and became a Lecturer in 2004, in order to pursue writing and reasearch around  mental health, adult support and protection, and general community care law and policy. The most recent projects  are included in the others sections. In   2009 I started a PhD by publication and I am using  the concepts of  citizenship  and professional discretion to explore  how social workers support or limit service users' rights when they are are subject to  statutory intervention  under the Scottish legal framework for adults at risk of harm.  This has led to an interest in, and publications about the possible impact of devolution on social work law and policy within the UK.         

• discretion and decision-making
• citizenship
• social work education and social work values
• adult support and protection
• mental health law, rights and representation

• Governance, Participation and Inclusion

• COM9A1-Citizenship, Self determination and Support Services (Graduate Certificate in Adult Services, Support and Protection - Module 1) (Contributing Lecturer)
• SWK9LP-Social Work Law and Policy (Co-ordinator)
• SWKPLP-Social Work Law and Policy (Co-ordinator)

• No Books in our records

• Mackay, K. (2011) A parting of the ways? The diverging nature of mental health social work in the light of the new Acts in Scotland, and in England and Wales. The Journal of Social Work , advanced online access 18 February, 2011 
  
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• Woodward,R. and Mackay, K. (2011) Mind the Gap! Students’ Understanding and Application of Social Work Values, Social Work Education, advanced online access from October 2011  

  
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• Mackay, K. (2011) Compounding Conditional Citizenship:  To what extent does Scottish and English mental health law increase or diminish Social Citizenship? British Journal of Social Work,Vol.41, No. 5, pp.931-948.

• Mackay, K. and Woodward,R. (2010)  Exploring the Place of Values in the New Social Work Degree in Scotland, Journal of Social Work Education, 2010, Vol.29, Issue 6,pp. 633 – 645.

• Mackay,K. (2008) The Scottish adult support and protection legal framework, The Journal of Adult Protection, 10(4):pp25-36 

• Mackay, K. and Marshall, M. (2006) ‘Thinking about Taps: Reflections on Dementia and Disability’, Alzheimer’s Care Quarterly 7(3):pp2-6.

• Mackay, K. (2011) Vulnerability, autonomy, capacity and consent, in Gordon, J. and Davis, R. (2011) Social Work and Law in Scotland, second edition, Houndsmill, Palgrave Macmillan,pp.136-151.

   

• Mackay, K (2008) The Scottish Legal Context of Adult Support and Protection’ In. Pritchard, J. (ed) Good Practice in the Law and Adult Protection Work, London: Jessica Kingsley,

• Innes, A. McCabe, L. and Mackay, K. (2006) ‘Dementia Studies online: reflections on the opportunities and drawbacks of eLearning’, Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 58(3): pp303-317.

• Mackay, K. (2005) Mental Illness and Social Work in Shardlow, S. and Nelson,P. (eds) Introducing Social Work, Lyme Regis: Russell House Publishing Ltd.

• Mackay,K. (2003) The Role of Mental Health Officer in Baillie,D. et al (eds) Social Work and the Law in Scotland, Basingstoke:Palgrave.

• Mackay,K., McLaughlan,C., Rossi, S., McNicholl, J. Notman, M., and  Fraser,D. (2011) Exploring how practitioners support and protect adults at risk of harm in the light of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007, Stirling: University of Stirling 
  
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• Dawson, A., Ferguson, I., Maxwell, M. and Mackay, K. (2009) An assessment of the operation of the Named Person role and its interaction with other forms of patient representation under the new Mental Health Act, Edinburgh: Scottish Government

• No Edited Books in our records

• An assessment of the operation of the Named Person role and its interaction with other forms of patient representation.
• Values in Social Work Education
• Exploring how practitioners are working with risk after the implementation of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007