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
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 Implementation (ACDI)
ACDI aims to address the research-to-practice implementation gap for advance choice documents.
Project status: Ongoing
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...
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...
Research
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 Implementation (ACDI)
ACDI aims to address the research-to-practice implementation gap for advance choice documents.
Project status: Ongoing
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...
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...