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Lucy Stephenson

Clinical research associate

  • PhD student

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.

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

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

Research

brain spotlight hero
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.

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

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