Jill Stavert
jillstavert.bsky.social
Jill Stavert
@jillstavert.bsky.social
Professor of Mental Health & Capacity Law
Lead, Centre for Mental Health Practice Policy & Law
Research
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Mental health, mental capacity, related equality and human rights and intersectionality, law & policy review and reform
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Children and Adolescents' Mental Health: Care & Treatment Webinar: Learn from expert @jillstavert.bsky.social on this critical topic - BOOK NOW 👉 bit.ly/4kEuaXb #LSAwebinar #childrensmentalhealth #mentalhealth #careandtreatment #ECHR #UNCRC #UNCRPD #capacity #humanrights #cpd #tcpd
April 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I also want to highlight the amazing work by my co-authors on this symposium - @bevclough.bsky.social, @jillstavert.bsky.social, @colinimckay.bsky.social, Linda Steele, Oche Onazi, and Peter Bartlett.

You can find the full symposium here: academic.oup.com/hrlr/issue/2...
Volume 25 Issue 2 | Human Rights Law Review | Oxford Academic
Publishes critical articles that consider human rights in their various contexts, from global to national levels, book reviews, and a section dedicated to analysis of recent jurisprudence and practice...
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April 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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📢 Children and Adolescents' Mental Health: Care and Treatment Webinar: Learn from expert Professor @jillstavert.bsky.social on this critical topic - BOOK NOW 👉 bit.ly/4kEuaXb #LSAwebinar #childrensmentalhealth #mentalhealth #careandtreatment #ECHR #UNCRC #UNCRPD #capacity #humanrights #cpd #tcpd
March 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Now finished but anyone wanting to see me and @jillstavert.bsky.social gallop through human rights and mental health in 30 minutes can get recording from @lsa.org.uk
March 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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BBC Disclosure documentary 10th February 8pm GMT. Kids on the Psychiatric Ward. Scotland. These issues are important!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Disclosure, Kids on the Psychiatric Ward
Young women tell their stories from years spent on an adolescent psychiatric ward.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Jill Stavert @jillstavert.bsky.social summarises a recent qualitative meta-synthesis of service users’ and carers’ experiences of assessment and involuntary hospital admissions under mental health legislations.
January 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Good to be up on bsky. Following the storm of interest provoked by our 2022 review, I am pleased to announce the publication of my book telling the story of the serotonin theory of depression from the beginning to recent challenges. Due out Jan 2025. To pre-order lnk.to/chemicallyim...
November 26, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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Last month we published a report which shows a continuing decline in the number of young people aged under 18 admitted to non-specialist – usually adult – wards for mental health care in 2023-24.

Read more here: bit.ly/3UQte6W
December 31, 2024 at 10:52 AM