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Biography
Dr Lucy Stephenson joined the Mental Health and Justice Project in 2017 to complete a PhD focussed on developing and trialling a tool which aims to maximise service user autonomy in making advance decisions for mental health crises.
She is a higher trainee in Psychiatry and Medical Psychotherapy on the Maudsley Training Programme and has a background in Philosophy of Psychiatry.
Research Interests
- Mental Health Law
- Medical Humanities
Expertise and Public Engagement
Dr Stephenson worked with members of the Mental Health and Justice Project and the Policy Institute at Kings to organise a Westminster Evidence Session on the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act and produce a policy briefing and blog post. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/adm-mental-health-act.pdf
Dr Stephenson coordinates the Mental Health and Justice Twitter feed @MHealthJustice
Research
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Mental Health, Ethics & Law Research Group
The group is concerned with problems which psychiatry, ethics and law have in common and with devising interdisciplinary strategies to research them.
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Advance Choice Documents Implementation (ACDI)
ACDI aims to address the research-to-practice implementation gap for advance choice documents.
Project status: Ongoing
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Complex Life and Death Decisions group
The Complex Life and Death Decisions group (CLADD) is a King’s based group with expertise in psychiatry, palliative care, bioethics, public policy and law. Members of the group lead research in life and death decision-making (particularly in relation to mental health conditions and palliative care), contribute to policy development, professional guidelines and law reform, and have appeared in leading court cases.
News
A systematic review of the reasons behind self-binding directives
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and Ruhr-Universität Bochum has explored the pros...
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Do service users with bipolar disorder want to choose enforced treatment ahead of future episodes?
A new study from the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London, in partnership with the charity Bipolar UK, explores...
![Beth Hopkins - Identity Drawing for Lancet Psychiatry](/image-library/ioppn-news/hopkins-identity-drawing-for-lancet.x0f00315b.jpg?w=780&h=585&crop=780,440,0,73&f=webp)
Research
![brain spotlight hero](/image-library/Press-Photos/brain-spotlight-hero.x51adcc0a.jpg?w=1584&h=440&crop=780,440,402,0&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Mental Health, Ethics & Law Research Group
The group is concerned with problems which psychiatry, ethics and law have in common and with devising interdisciplinary strategies to research them.
![advance choice documents acd therapy](/newimages/ioppn/news-spotlights/advance-choice-documents-acd-therapy.x46fee2af.jpg?w=780&h=520&crop=780,440,0,40&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Advance Choice Documents Implementation (ACDI)
ACDI aims to address the research-to-practice implementation gap for advance choice documents.
Project status: Ongoing
![Cladd web pics-02](/newimages/sspp/policy-institute/cladd-web-pics-02.x794178d2.jpg?width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Complex Life and Death Decisions group
The Complex Life and Death Decisions group (CLADD) is a King’s based group with expertise in psychiatry, palliative care, bioethics, public policy and law. Members of the group lead research in life and death decision-making (particularly in relation to mental health conditions and palliative care), contribute to policy development, professional guidelines and law reform, and have appeared in leading court cases.
News
A systematic review of the reasons behind self-binding directives
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and Ruhr-Universität Bochum has explored the pros...
![Stethoscope on a notebook](/newimages/nmpc/doctor.x17e0ea4c.jpg?w=780&h=520&crop=780,440,0,40&f=webp)
Do service users with bipolar disorder want to choose enforced treatment ahead of future episodes?
A new study from the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London, in partnership with the charity Bipolar UK, explores...
![Beth Hopkins - Identity Drawing for Lancet Psychiatry](/image-library/ioppn-news/hopkins-identity-drawing-for-lancet.x0f00315b.jpg?w=780&h=585&crop=780,440,0,73&f=webp)