Lorna Templeton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1726745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorna Templeton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorna |
| FAMILY NAME | Templeton |
| SIGNATURE | TEMPLETON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Relational legal consciousness and the mobilization of the law of the inquest in England and Wales
This article explores the legal consciousness of bereaved people in contact with the coronial system in England and Wales, drawing on an interview‐based empirical study. Informed by socio‐legal scholarship on relational dimensions of legal consciousness and citizens’ mobilization of the law, the article analyses the relationships within and through which bereaved people mobilize the law of the inquest in pursuit of change. Three key relational ap…
I just felt we were shadows’
Supporting adults bereaved through substance use with the 5-Step method
While substance-related deaths across the United Kingdom are of continued concern, insufficient support is given to those who are bereaved, despite evidence that this is a particular bereavement requiring a specific response. This small study aimed to test the potential for an adapted version of an existing intervention, the 5-Step Method, within a substance misuse treatment service. It was possible to adapt the 5-Step Method for adults bereaved …
When “Good Enough” Isn’t Good Enough
This paper draws on data from one strand of a six-strand, exploratory study on end of life care for adults using substances (AUS). It presents data from the key informant (KI) strand of the study that aimed to identify models of practice in the UK. Participant recruitment was purposive and used snowball sampling to recruit KIs from a range of health and social care, policy and practice backgrounds. Data were collected in 2016–2017 from 20 KIs usi…
Developing Peer Support for Adults Bereaved Through Substance Use
The impacts of a bereavement through substance use are many and profound and include guilt, loneliness, stigma, and mixed responses from professionals and others. It seems that those who are bereaved in this way have a particular and unique experience of grief, which many feel is disenfranchised. Support needs to be credible as well as effective, yet up until now little specialist help has been available. In particular, help from a peer who has b…
Bereavement through substance use
Background: Deaths associated with alcohol and/or drugs belong to a category of ‘special’ deaths due to three characteristics: traumatic circumstances of the death, stigma directed to both the bereaved and the deceased, and resulting disenfranchised grief experienced by the bereaved. These factors can impede those who are bereaved in this way from both grieving and accessing support. In response to a lack of research in this area this paper repor…
Conspicuous by their abstinence
Establishing a ‘Corstonian’ continuous care pathway for drug using female prisoners
This article outlines the findings from a rapid assessment of pilot Drug Recovery Wings (DRWs) in two women’s prisons and compares the DRW approach with work undertaken in Women’s Community Services (WCSs) commended by the Corston Report. The findings indicate that DRW1 was working more successfully in providing a ‘Corstonian’ approach than DRW2 and the reasons behind this are explored. The article argues that, while pockets of good practice such…
Compassion or stigma? How adults bereaved by alcohol or drugs experience services
How to promote compassionate care within public services is a concern in several countries; specifically, some British healthcare scandals highlight poor care for service users who may readily be stigmatised as ‘other’. The article therefore aims to understand better the relationship between stigma and compassion. As people bereaved by a drug- or alcohol-related death often experience stigma, the article draws on findings from a major British stu…
Pathways back to work for problem alcohol users
The relationship between alcohol misuse, employment and unemployment is complex. Alcohol misuse is correlated with a range of other problems, including, for example, drug misuse, mental health problems and social deprivation. Together these can be a barrier to accessing and sustaining employment. The aim of this study was to explore these issues with a sample of adults in the UK who were currently accessing treatment for an alcohol problem. The s…
Addiction in the family is a major but neglected contributor to the global burden of adult ill-health
Supporting families living with parental substance misuse
The Moving Parents and Children Together (M‐PACT) programme is one of the growing number of interventions tailored to meet the multiple and complex needs of children and families affected by parental substance misuse. This paper pulls together the qualitative findings from 13 evaluated M‐PACT programmes in England. Sixty‐four families attended an M‐PACT programme, including 82 children and 75 adults. Qualitative data were collected from 37 childr…
The experiences of affected family members
This article is based upon the collective findings of a number of studies conducted in a number of countries during the past 20 years. Female partners and mothers are the family members who have been most represented in the study samples, but the latter also included sizeable numbers of male partners, fathers, sisters, brothers and adult sons and daughters. Citing examples taken from the studies, the article describes some of the most prominent e…
One way, one truth
Local action to prevent alcohol problems
Family interventions in the treatment of alcohol and drug problems
Alcohol and drug problems affect not only those using these substances but also family members of the substance user. In this review evidence of the negative impacts substance misuse may have upon families are examined, following which family-focused interventions are reviewed. Several family-focused interventions have been developed. They can be broadly grouped into three types: (1) working with family members to promote the entry and engagement…
Straight from the heart
The experiences of postnatal depression in women from black and minority ethnic communities in Wiltshire, UK
All the women had problematic lives, affected by a multitude of factors, and raised a number of serious concerns that related to health and social care. This has implications for practice and service provision, as demonstrated by the data from GPs and health visitors, in, for example, the provision of advice and information (and in different languages), training, improved communication and inter-agency working, in this area (where the research wa…
Addiction in the family is a major but neglected contributor to the global burden of adult ill-health
Compassion or stigma? How adults bereaved by alcohol or drugs experience services
How to promote compassionate care within public services is a concern in several countries; specifically, some British healthcare scandals highlight poor care for service users who may readily be stigmatised as ‘other’. The article therefore aims to understand better the relationship between stigma and compassion. As people bereaved by a drug- or alcohol-related death often experience stigma, the article draws on findings from a major British stu…
The experiences of postnatal depression in women from black and minority ethnic communities in Wiltshire, UK
All the women had problematic lives, affected by a multitude of factors, and raised a number of serious concerns that related to health and social care. This has implications for practice and service provision, as demonstrated by the data from GPs and health visitors, in, for example, the provision of advice and information (and in different languages), training, improved communication and inter-agency working, in this area (where the research wa…
Pathways back to work for problem alcohol users
The relationship between alcohol misuse, employment and unemployment is complex. Alcohol misuse is correlated with a range of other problems, including, for example, drug misuse, mental health problems and social deprivation. Together these can be a barrier to accessing and sustaining employment. The aim of this study was to explore these issues with a sample of adults in the UK who were currently accessing treatment for an alcohol problem. The s…
Supporting families living with parental substance misuse
The Moving Parents and Children Together (M‐PACT) programme is one of the growing number of interventions tailored to meet the multiple and complex needs of children and families affected by parental substance misuse. This paper pulls together the qualitative findings from 13 evaluated M‐PACT programmes in England. Sixty‐four families attended an M‐PACT programme, including 82 children and 75 adults. Qualitative data were collected from 37 childr…
The experiences of postnatal depression in women from black and minority ethnic communities in Wiltshire, UK
All the women had problematic lives, affected by a multitude of factors, and raised a number of serious concerns that related to health and social care. This has implications for practice and service provision, as demonstrated by the data from GPs and health visitors, in, for example, the provision of advice and information (and in different languages), training, improved communication and inter-agency working, in this area (where the research wa…
Family interventions in the treatment of alcohol and drug problems
Alcohol and drug problems affect not only those using these substances but also family members of the substance user. In this review evidence of the negative impacts substance misuse may have upon families are examined, following which family-focused interventions are reviewed. Several family-focused interventions have been developed. They can be broadly grouped into three types: (1) working with family members to promote the entry and engagement…
Straight from the heart
Local action to prevent alcohol problems
One way, one truth
The experiences of affected family members
This article is based upon the collective findings of a number of studies conducted in a number of countries during the past 20 years. Female partners and mothers are the family members who have been most represented in the study samples, but the latter also included sizeable numbers of male partners, fathers, sisters, brothers and adult sons and daughters. Citing examples taken from the studies, the article describes some of the most prominent e…
Supporting families living with parental substance misuse
The Moving Parents and Children Together (M‐PACT) programme is one of the growing number of interventions tailored to meet the multiple and complex needs of children and families affected by parental substance misuse. This paper pulls together the qualitative findings from 13 evaluated M‐PACT programmes in England. Sixty‐four families attended an M‐PACT programme, including 82 children and 75 adults. Qualitative data were collected from 37 childr…
Pathways back to work for problem alcohol users
The relationship between alcohol misuse, employment and unemployment is complex. Alcohol misuse is correlated with a range of other problems, including, for example, drug misuse, mental health problems and social deprivation. Together these can be a barrier to accessing and sustaining employment. The aim of this study was to explore these issues with a sample of adults in the UK who were currently accessing treatment for an alcohol problem. The s…
Addiction in the family is a major but neglected contributor to the global burden of adult ill-health
Compassion or stigma? How adults bereaved by alcohol or drugs experience services
How to promote compassionate care within public services is a concern in several countries; specifically, some British healthcare scandals highlight poor care for service users who may readily be stigmatised as ‘other’. The article therefore aims to understand better the relationship between stigma and compassion. As people bereaved by a drug- or alcohol-related death often experience stigma, the article draws on findings from a major British stu…
Bereavement through substance use
Background: Deaths associated with alcohol and/or drugs belong to a category of ‘special’ deaths due to three characteristics: traumatic circumstances of the death, stigma directed to both the bereaved and the deceased, and resulting disenfranchised grief experienced by the bereaved. These factors can impede those who are bereaved in this way from both grieving and accessing support. In response to a lack of research in this area this paper repor…
Conspicuous by their abstinence
Establishing a ‘Corstonian’ continuous care pathway for drug using female prisoners
This article outlines the findings from a rapid assessment of pilot Drug Recovery Wings (DRWs) in two women’s prisons and compares the DRW approach with work undertaken in Women’s Community Services (WCSs) commended by the Corston Report. The findings indicate that DRW1 was working more successfully in providing a ‘Corstonian’ approach than DRW2 and the reasons behind this are explored. The article argues that, while pockets of good practice such…
Developing Peer Support for Adults Bereaved Through Substance Use
The impacts of a bereavement through substance use are many and profound and include guilt, loneliness, stigma, and mixed responses from professionals and others. It seems that those who are bereaved in this way have a particular and unique experience of grief, which many feel is disenfranchised. Support needs to be credible as well as effective, yet up until now little specialist help has been available. In particular, help from a peer who has b…
Supporting adults bereaved through substance use with the 5-Step method
While substance-related deaths across the United Kingdom are of continued concern, insufficient support is given to those who are bereaved, despite evidence that this is a particular bereavement requiring a specific response. This small study aimed to test the potential for an adapted version of an existing intervention, the 5-Step Method, within a substance misuse treatment service. It was possible to adapt the 5-Step Method for adults bereaved …
When “Good Enough” Isn’t Good Enough
This paper draws on data from one strand of a six-strand, exploratory study on end of life care for adults using substances (AUS). It presents data from the key informant (KI) strand of the study that aimed to identify models of practice in the UK. Participant recruitment was purposive and used snowball sampling to recruit KIs from a range of health and social care, policy and practice backgrounds. Data were collected in 2016–2017 from 20 KIs usi…
Relational legal consciousness and the mobilization of the law of the inquest in England and Wales
This article explores the legal consciousness of bereaved people in contact with the coronial system in England and Wales, drawing on an interview‐based empirical study. Informed by socio‐legal scholarship on relational dimensions of legal consciousness and citizens’ mobilization of the law, the article analyses the relationships within and through which bereaved people mobilize the law of the inquest in pursuit of change. Three key relational ap…
I just felt we were shadows’
Psychology (16 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Public health (5 works)