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Human rights and psychiatric practice in relation to involuntary treatment of young people in Europe (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stavert, J., Malmendier-Muehlschegel, A., & Schulze, U. (2025, June). Human rights and psychiatric practice in relation to involuntary treatment of young people in Europe. Presented at ESCAP 2025: 21st International Congress of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Strasbourg

Aims: International human rights treaties emphasize autonomy and reducing or eliminating psychiatric coercion making which can conflict with involuntary psychiatric treatment. The aim of our workshop is to facilitate a discussion between mental healt... Read More about Human rights and psychiatric practice in relation to involuntary treatment of young people in Europe.

Towards a human-rights-based framework for assessing psychiatric intervention for children and young people (2025)
Journal Article
Stavert, J., Watts, J., Schulze, U. M. E., & Malmendier-Muehlschegel, A. (2025). Towards a human-rights-based framework for assessing psychiatric intervention for children and young people. BJPsych Open, 11(2), Article e50. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.856

Decisions around psychiatric interventions for children and young people involve balancing respect for the child’s wishes, the need to provide benefit and relevant risk factors. We recommend establishing a framework for assessment of interventions fo... Read More about Towards a human-rights-based framework for assessing psychiatric intervention for children and young people.

Cognitive benefits of hearing intervention vary by risk of cognitive decline: A secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE trial (2025)
Journal Article
Pike, J. R., Huang, A. R., Reed, N. S., Arnold, M., Chisolm, T., Couper, D., Deal, J. A., Glynn, N. W., Goman, A. M., Hayden, K. M., Mitchell, C. M., Pankow, J. S., Sanchez, V., Sullivan, K. J., Tan, N. S., Coresh, J., & Lin, F. R. (in press). Cognitive benefits of hearing intervention vary by risk of cognitive decline: A secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE trial. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association,

INTRODUCTION: Results from the ACHIEVE trial suggest hearing intervention may not reduce 3-year cognitive decline in all older adults with hearing loss but may be beneficial in certain groups. This secondary analysis investigated if participants with... Read More about Cognitive benefits of hearing intervention vary by risk of cognitive decline: A secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE trial.

Impact of a hearing intervention on the levels of leisure-time physical activity and T.V. viewing in older adults: results from a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE trial (2025)
Journal Article
Martinez-Amezcua, P., Zhang, W., Assi, S., Gupta, H., Twardzik, E., Huang, A. R., Reed, N. S., Deal, J. A., Arnold, M. L., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T., Couper, D., Glynn, N. W., Gmelin, T., Goman, A. M., Gravens-Mueller, L., Hayden, K. M., Mitchell, C. M., Pankow, J. S., Russell Pike, J., …Coresh, J. (online). Impact of a hearing intervention on the levels of leisure-time physical activity and T.V. viewing in older adults: results from a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE trial. Journals of Gerontology, Series A, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaf033

Background
Age-related hearing loss is common among older adults and may influence physical activity and sedentary behaviors, such as TV viewing. This study examined whether a hearing intervention could affect these behaviors over three years.

Me... Read More about Impact of a hearing intervention on the levels of leisure-time physical activity and T.V. viewing in older adults: results from a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE trial.

Neurodiversity: Navigating the criminal justice system at the intersect of policing and health (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Heyman, I., & Spassiani, N. (2025, January). Neurodiversity: Navigating the criminal justice system at the intersect of policing and health. Presented at Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research PhD Series, Online

People with neurodiversity or a neurodisability are overly represented in policing interactions. Yet, knowledge to support meaningful and positive impacts on criminal justice systems to support people with neurodiversity/neurodisability are sparse.... Read More about Neurodiversity: Navigating the criminal justice system at the intersect of policing and health.

Capacity and incapacity: an appropriate border for non-consensual interventions? (2024)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2025). Capacity and incapacity: an appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 98, Article 102042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.102042

Those who support decision-making capacity as a criterion for non-consensual interventions for persons with mental disabilities (mental illness, learning disability, neurodivergence, acquired brain injury and dementia) argue that it creates parity be... Read More about Capacity and incapacity: an appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?.

Influence social change with your research by building relationships (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Hillen, P., & Heyman, I. (2024). Influence social change with your research by building relationships

Invited submission following recognition at THE awards 2024
Researchers from Edinburgh Napier University needed to form relationships with a range of people when evaluating Police Scotland’s use of the drug naloxone. Here’s how they did it.

A New Legal Framework – Autonomous Decision Making, Human Rights Enablement and Support For Decision Making (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stavert, J. (2024, July). A New Legal Framework – Autonomous Decision Making, Human Rights Enablement and Support For Decision Making. Paper presented at International Academy of Law and Mental Health Congress 2024, Barcelona, Spain

Even so-called human rights-based mental health and capacity legislation has tended to exclusively focus on authorising and regulating non-consensual interventions and pays little or no attention to the wider needs of persons with mental disabilities... Read More about A New Legal Framework – Autonomous Decision Making, Human Rights Enablement and Support For Decision Making.

Unified Mental Health and Capacity Law: Creating Parity and Non-Discrimination? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stavert, J., & McKay, C. (2024, July). Unified Mental Health and Capacity Law: Creating Parity and Non-Discrimination?. Paper presented at International Academy of Law and Mental Health Congress 2024, Barcelona, Spain

It has been argued that a fusion of mental health and capacity law creates parity and respects nondiscrimination. This approach has been adopted in the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, although this legislation is not yet fully in force.... Read More about Unified Mental Health and Capacity Law: Creating Parity and Non-Discrimination?.

Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation (2024)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2024). Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation. In N. Gill, & N. Sartorius (Eds.), Mental Health and Human Rights: The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (153-165). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52179-9_11

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) challenges the foundations of mental health legislation. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has stated that non-consensual psychiatric measures reinforce inequalit... Read More about Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation.

The CRPD and Mental Health Law Reform in Scotland (2024)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2024). The CRPD and Mental Health Law Reform in Scotland. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 94, Article 101991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.101991

Scotland's mental health and capacity legislation and its implementation is underpinned by European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) informed principles, and such legislation and its implementation has remained largely ECHR compliant. It is designed... Read More about The CRPD and Mental Health Law Reform in Scotland.

Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Neil, J., & Ivancheva, M. (2024, April). Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?. Paper presented at 42nd International Labour Process Conference 2024 (ILPC 2024), Göttingen

Precarious work that becomes a ‘stepping stone’ to decent work (McGuiness and Wooden 2009, Nunley et al 2017; Munoz-Comet and Steinmetz 2020) is the bargain struck for many learners leaving education and accessing employment, typically via placements... Read More about Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?.

COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3 The Provision of Health and Social Care Services Adult Social Care (2024)
Report
McKay, C., Stavert, J., Johnston, L., Murray, J., Rek, J., Breen, C., Zarins, A., Woodrow, A., Anderson, L., & King, M. (2024). COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3 The Provision of Health and Social Care Services Adult Social Care. Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry

Report commissioned by Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry into the Scottish Government's strategic response to the COVID pandemic in relation to the provision of healthcare services and social care support to adults, excluding residential care

Detention of children and adolescents under mental health legislation: a scoping review of prevalence, risk factors, and legal frameworks (2024)
Journal Article
Schölin, L., Tucker, Z., Chopra, A., Borschmann, R., & McKay, C. (2024). Detention of children and adolescents under mental health legislation: a scoping review of prevalence, risk factors, and legal frameworks. BMC Pediatrics, 24(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04464-6

Background: For individuals with severe mental illness, involuntary assessment and/or treatment (hereafter detention) can be a necessary intervention to support recovery and may even be lifesaving. Despite this, little is known about how often these... Read More about Detention of children and adolescents under mental health legislation: a scoping review of prevalence, risk factors, and legal frameworks.

Hearing loss and cognition: A protocol for ensuring speech understanding before neurocognitive assessment (2023)
Journal Article
Kolberg, E. R., Morales, E. E. G., Thallmayer, T. W., Arnold, M. L., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T. H., Coresh, J., Couper, D., Hayden, K. M., Huang, A. R., Lin, F. R., Mitchell, C. M., Mosley, T. H., Gravens‐Mueller, L., Owens, T. A., Pankow, J. S., Pike, J. R., Reed, N. S., Sanchez, V., Schrack, J. A., …ACHIEVE Collaborative Research Group. (2024). Hearing loss and cognition: A protocol for ensuring speech understanding before neurocognitive assessment. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 20(3), 1671-1681. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13552

INTRODUCTION: Many neurocognitive evaluations involve auditory stimuli, yet there are no standard testing guidelines for individuals with hearing loss. The ensuring speech understanding (ESU) test was developed to confirm speech understanding and det... Read More about Hearing loss and cognition: A protocol for ensuring speech understanding before neurocognitive assessment.

Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Older Adults With Hearing Loss in the ACHIEVE Study (2023)
Journal Article
Huang, A. R., Reed, N. S., Deal, J. A., Arnold, M., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T., Couper, D., Glynn, N. W., Gmelin, T., Goman, A. M., Gravens-Mueller, L., Hayden, K. M., Mitchell, C., Pankow, J. S., Pike, J. R., Schrack, J. A., Sanchez, V., Coresh, J., Lin, F. R., & ACHIEVE Collaborative Research Group. (2024). Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Older Adults With Hearing Loss in the ACHIEVE Study. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 43(5), 550–561. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648231212291

Hearing loss is associated with cognitive/physical health; less is known about mental health. We investigated associations between hearing loss severity, depression, and health-related quality of life among older adults with unaided hearing loss. Dat... Read More about Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Older Adults With Hearing Loss in the ACHIEVE Study.

The emotional labour of teleworkers conducting online counselling during Covid-19. (2023)
Journal Article
O'Neil, J., Heidl, B. H., Bratton, A., Vossler, A., & Moller, N. (2024). The emotional labour of teleworkers conducting online counselling during Covid-19. New Technology, Work and Employment, 39(2), 238-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12284

Drawing on emotional labour theory, this paper explores the barriers to emotionally complex telework, with a specific focus on the space, interface and pace of work. We examine the working lives of mental health counsellors who adapted from in‐person... Read More about The emotional labour of teleworkers conducting online counselling during Covid-19..

Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry Research: Update of Health and Social Care research covering the period February 2022 to 31 December 2022 (2023)
Report
McKay, C., Stavert, J., McKay, E., King, M., & Zarins, A. Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry Research: Update of Health and Social Care research covering the period February 2022 to 31 December 2022. Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry

Report commissioned by Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry to update previous research into strategic response of Scottish Government to COVID pandemic in relation to health and social care, particularly care and nursing homes, the provision of health a... Read More about Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry Research: Update of Health and Social Care research covering the period February 2022 to 31 December 2022.

People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond (2023)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2023). People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond. In B. D. Kelly, & M. Donnelly (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law (166-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003226413

‘Learning disability’ is currently included in the statutory definition of ‘mental disorder’ used by Scottish capacity and mental health legislation, along with mental illness and personality disorder. This raises the general Convention on the Rights... Read More about People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond.