Gareth Owen

Workstream 3: Supporting Advance Directives | Principal investigator

Workstream 6: Contested Assessment |Principal investigator

Reader at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, KCL and honorary consultant psychiatrist, King’s Health Partners. Gareth is an academic psychiatrist with expertise in mental health, ethics and law as well as policy. He co leads workstreams 3 and 6 and contributes widely across the research network. Gareth chairs the MHJ academic management group.

Research

‘Clear explanation’ in mental capacity assessment – Owen, G., et al. (2021)
Broad concepts and messy realities: optimising the application of mental capacity criteria – Kim, S. et al. (2021)
Advance directives reduce friction over involuntary treatment – Authors’ reply – Gergel, T. et al. (2021)
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)
Insight and equality: A systematic review and meta-analysis of socio-demographic associations – Ariyo, K. et al. (2021)
Experiences of assessing mental capacity in England and Wales: A large-scale survey of professionals – Ariyo, K. et al. (2021)
Do service users with bipolar disorder want to be able to ‘bind’ themselves to receiving treatment in future episodes of illness?
Applying decision-making capacity criteria in practice: A content analysis of court judgments – Kane, N. et al.(2021)
Avoiding hard capacity assessments will not help. Kane, N., Ruck Keene, A., & Owen, G. (2020).
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).

Activity

Capacity, complexity and time - Gareth Owen
Avoiding hard capacity assessments will not help
Maudsley Masterclasses on ‘Contested Capacity Assessments’ in June and July 2019
Evidence Session on Independent Review of MHA at House of Lords chaired by Baroness Margaret Jay
Presentation on ‘Contested Capacity Assessments’ - Gareth Owen and Nuala Kane