Advance Directives research

Workstream 3

Bound to the Mast – BBC Radio 4 documentary

On Tuesday 17 May 2022 at 16:00, a BBC Radio 4 documentary will air, looking at Advance Directives, and feature Dr Tania Gergel. Why are people with mental illness committing themselves in advance,...

Advance directives reduce friction over involuntary treatment – Authors’ reply – Gergel, T. et al. (2021)

29 Sep, 21 | 2021, Advance Directives, Output

Gergel, T., Das, P., Owen, G., Stephenson, L., Rifkin, L., Hindley, G. The Lancet Psychiatry, Voulme 8, Issue...

Reasons for endorsing or rejecting self-binding directives in bipolar disorder: a qualitative study of survey responses from UK service users – Gergel, T., Das, P. et al. (2021)

27 Aug, 21 | 2021, Advance Directives, Output

Tania Gergel, Preety Das, Gareth Owen, Lucy Stephenson, Larry Rifkin, Guy Hindley, John Dawson, Alex Ruck Keene The...

Do service users with bipolar disorder want to be able to ‘bind’ themselves to receiving treatment in future episodes of illness?

22 Jun, 21 | 2021, Advance Directives, News, Output

A new study by researchers from the ‘Supporting Advance Directives’ workstream, in partnership with the charity...

Advance Decision Making in Bipolar: A systematic review. Stephenson, L. A., Gergel, T., Gieselmann, A., Scholten, M., Ruck Keene, A., Rifkin, L., & Owen, G. (2020).

22 Nov, 20 | 2020, Advance Directives, Output

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 1020.

The ‘Mental Health and Justice Project’: Using interdisciplinarity to move beyond impasse in disability rights. Gergel, T. (2020).

22 Aug, 20 | 2020, Advance Directives, Community Participation, Contested Assessment, Insight, Legal Capacity, Metacognition, Output

International Journal of law and Psychiatry, 71, 101570-101570.

The PACT advance decision-making template: preparing for Mental Health Act reforms with co-production, focus groups and consultation. Stephenson, L. A., Gergel, T., Keene, A. R., Rifkin, L., & Owen, G. (2020).

22 Apr, 20 | 2020, Advance Directives, Output

International journal of law and psychiatry, 71, 101563.

‘Why have I not been told about this? a survey of experiences of and attitudes to advance decision-making amongst people with bipolar’. Hindley, G., Stephenson, L. A., Ruck Keene, A., Rifkin, L., Gergel, T. , & Owen, G (2019).

12 Sep, 19 | 2019, Advance Directives, Output

Wellcome Open Research 2019.

The future of Advance Decision Making in the Mental Health Act

13 May, 19 | 2019, Advance Directives, Output

‘Advance decision making’ refers to people planning for a future when they may become unwell. At present, people...

Advance decision-making in mental health – Suggestions for legal reform in England and Wales

17 Apr, 19 | 2019, Advance Directives, Output

Mental Health and Justice Workstream 3, 'Advance Directives', have published a new paper in International Journal of...

Mis-evaluating the future. Affective Disorder and Decision-Making Capacity for Treatment: a Temporal Understanding. Owen, G., Martin, W., Gergel, T. Psychopathology (2018)

11 Dec, 18 | 2018, Advance Directives, Insight, Output

A new study from MHJ researchers using in-depth interviews with patients/service users experiencing mood disorder. The...

Manic Temporality. Martin, W., Gergel, T., Owen, G. Philosophical Psychology (2018)

23 Nov, 18 | 2018, Advance Directives, Insight, Output

Philosophical Psychology.

Fluctuating capacity and advanced decision making. Gergel, T., Owen, G. The International Journal of Law and Psychiatry special edition on ‘Mental capacities and legal responsibilities’ 40 (2015). 92-101.

14 Jun, 17 | 2017, Advance Directives, Output

For people with Bipolar Affective Disorder, a self-binding (advance) directive (SBD), by which they commit themselves...

Reframing a model – the benefits and challenges of service user involvement in mental health research, first-authored with Thomas Kabir in Bluhm, R (ed.) Knowing and Acting in Medicine (Rowman and Littlefield 2017).

29 Jan, 17 | 2017, Advance Directives, Output