Lucy Stephenson

Workstream 3: Supporting Advance Directives | Clinical research fellow

Lucy is an SpR in General Adult Psychiatry and Medical Psychotherapy on the South London and the Maudsley Training Scheme. She has a background in Philosophy of Psychiatry and is currently a Clinical Research Associate with the Mental Health and Justice project.

Research

Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: A comparison of empirical research with stakeholders in three European countries – Scholten, M., et al (2023)
Implementation of self-binding directives: recommendations based on expert consensus and input by stakeholders in three European countries – Letter to the editors, World Psychiatry
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)
Do service users with bipolar disorder want to be able to ‘bind’ themselves to receiving treatment in future episodes of illness?
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).
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).
‘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).
The future of Advance Decision Making in the Mental Health Act
Advance decision-making in mental health – Suggestions for legal reform in England and Wales

Activity

Advance decision-making, bipolar and overcoming fears – Lucy Stephenson
‘Advance decision making for mental health crises’ – Tania Gergel and Lucy Stephenson