Lucy Biddle
Biographic Data
| ID | 232053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Biddle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Biddle |
| SIGNATURE | BIDDLE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1090-8771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Prevention and postvention guidance relating to self-harm and suicide for UK educational and youth organisations
Self-harm and suicide among young people are major public health concerns and delivering prevention and postvention support is crucial. Educational and youth organisations play a vital role in both prevention and postvention. However, evidence shows a lack of understanding of effective interventions, and limited awareness of the available guidance in this area. We reviewed current self-harm and suicide guidance available to education and youth or…
Exploring the role of modifiable sex/gender-specific risk and protective factors for anxiety among young people in high income countries
Anxiety is the most common mental health problem in young people and sex/gender differences have been consistently reported, with girls and young women experiencing twice the chance of anxiety compared to boys and young men. There is a limited understanding, however, of the underlying causes of these differences. This systematic review aims to synthesise research identifying modifiable sex/gender-specific risk and protective factors for anxiety a…
The positive and negative consequences of stress and its relationship with coping in medical students
Rates of mental health problems among medical students have prompted efforts to reduce stress during medical training. However, stress can be motivating and is a feature of clinical work. This qualitative study explores what makes an experience stressful, and how medical students respond to such experiences. In-depth interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 15 medical students. Experiences were distressing when they threatened student…
Young people’s attitudes towards online self-help single-session interventions
The current study highlights that whilst young people perceived there to be many benefits associated with online single-session interventions, including anonymity, easy access, and lack of disclosure, they expressed doubts regarding sufficiency and ability to address severe mental health problems. Despite this, the potentially preventative effects during the early stages of help-seeking were highlighted, alongside single-session interventions act…
Emotional dysregulation in childhood and disordered eating and self‐harm in adolescence
BACKGROUND: Emotional dysregulation may be a risk factor for disordered eating and self-harm in young people, but few prospective studies have assessed these associations long-term, or considered potential mediators. We examined prospective relationships between childhood emotional dysregulation and disordered eating and self-harm in adolescence; and social cognition, emotional recognition, and being bullied as mediators. METHODS: We analysed Avo…
Web‐based support services to help prevent suicide in young people and students
The online world may provide an alternative means to engage young people and students with suicidal feelings, who are typically reluctant to seek help. We aimed to map, characterise and obtain user evaluation of current online suicide support for this group in order to assess the usefulness of current provision and how it may be improved. We conducted a mixed-methods study, comprised of an internet search, content analysis of site features and qu…
Contesting constructs and interrogating research methods
Discourses of self-harm, and also suicide, are often underpinned by a central tenet: prevention is the priority. This belief is seemingly so inscribed in research that it is rarely interrogated. The present paper re-analyses qualitative data from a hospital-based study of self-harm management and prevention practice. It aims to reflect upon, and disrupt, the authors' latent assumptions about the construct of 'prevention', while reflecting on the …
Theorising health professionals' prevention and management practices with children and young people experiencing self-harm
Self-harm in young people remains a significant concern. Studies of emergency departments have centred on negative professional attitudes. There has been limited interrogation and theorisation of what drives such attitudes, and the contexts that sustain them. Adopting a complex systems lens, this study aimed to explore how systems shape professional and patient interactions. It draws upon interviews with healthcare and affiliated professionals (n…
“Crazy person is crazy person. It doesn’t differentiate”
Cultural considerations and reducing stigma are vital in improving understanding of mental illness and improving access to mental health services, along with building relationships and trust between the Somali community and health care workers
Patients’ Experiences of Emergency Hospital Care Following Self-Harm
Rates of hospital presentation for self-harm have increased in recent years, and although clinical practice guidelines on clinical provision prioritize positive patient experiences, the quality of provision remains variable. This systematic review provides an updated and extended synthesis of qualitative research on the following: (a) patients’ experiences of treatment following presentation to hospital; and (b) patients’ perceptions of the impac…
Part and parcel of teaching? Secondary school staff's views on supporting student emotional health and well‐being
The need for schools to support children and young people's mental and emotional health is increasingly emphasised in policy initiatives, yet the role of teachers in this has been under explored. This paper reports findings from qualitative, semi‐structured interviews with 14 school staff at eight secondary schools in England, examining emotional health and well‐being (EHWB) activities in which they were involved. Three emergent themes are discus…
Supporting adolescent emotional health in schools
Staff and students identified several ways in which schools can improve their support of adolescent emotional health, both within and outside the curriculum. However, such changes should be introduced as part of a wider consideration of how the whole school environment can be more supportive of students' emotional health. Clearer guidance at policy level, more rigorous evaluation of current interventions, and greater dissemination of good practic…
Explaining non-help-seeking amongst young adults with mental distress
Mental disorder is common amongst young adults and is associated with many adverse outcomes. Data, however, indicate that young adults are particularly unlikely to seek help for such distress. This paper describes a qualitative study of 23 young adults (aged 16 to 24 years) with mental distress. Interviewing was used to obtain detailed narratives of illness behaviour and to explore reasons for non-help-seeking. Help-seekers and non-help-seekers w…
Public hazards or private tragedies? An exploratory study of the effect of coroners' procedures on those bereaved by suicide
The Emotional English and Their Queen of Hearts
Those who document folk customs of present, rather than past, always run risk of becoming out-of-date even as they publish. Such, one of us (Tony Walter) feared was his fate when, only three weeks after publication of his piece Emotional Reserve and English Way of (Walter 1997), Diana Princess of Wales died unexpectedly in a car crash in a Paris underpass, along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, and driver of car. The massive public response to her…
Explaining non-help-seeking amongst young adults with mental distress
Mental disorder is common amongst young adults and is associated with many adverse outcomes. Data, however, indicate that young adults are particularly unlikely to seek help for such distress. This paper describes a qualitative study of 23 young adults (aged 16 to 24 years) with mental distress. Interviewing was used to obtain detailed narratives of illness behaviour and to explore reasons for non-help-seeking. Help-seekers and non-help-seekers w…
Public hazards or private tragedies? An exploratory study of the effect of coroners' procedures on those bereaved by suicide
Part and parcel of teaching? Secondary school staff's views on supporting student emotional health and well‐being
The need for schools to support children and young people's mental and emotional health is increasingly emphasised in policy initiatives, yet the role of teachers in this has been under explored. This paper reports findings from qualitative, semi‐structured interviews with 14 school staff at eight secondary schools in England, examining emotional health and well‐being (EHWB) activities in which they were involved. Three emergent themes are discus…
The Emotional English and Their Queen of Hearts
Those who document folk customs of present, rather than past, always run risk of becoming out-of-date even as they publish. Such, one of us (Tony Walter) feared was his fate when, only three weeks after publication of his piece Emotional Reserve and English Way of (Walter 1997), Diana Princess of Wales died unexpectedly in a car crash in a Paris underpass, along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, and driver of car. The massive public response to her…
Web‐based support services to help prevent suicide in young people and students
The online world may provide an alternative means to engage young people and students with suicidal feelings, who are typically reluctant to seek help. We aimed to map, characterise and obtain user evaluation of current online suicide support for this group in order to assess the usefulness of current provision and how it may be improved. We conducted a mixed-methods study, comprised of an internet search, content analysis of site features and qu…
Theorising health professionals' prevention and management practices with children and young people experiencing self-harm
Self-harm in young people remains a significant concern. Studies of emergency departments have centred on negative professional attitudes. There has been limited interrogation and theorisation of what drives such attitudes, and the contexts that sustain them. Adopting a complex systems lens, this study aimed to explore how systems shape professional and patient interactions. It draws upon interviews with healthcare and affiliated professionals (n…
The Emotional English and Their Queen of Hearts
Those who document folk customs of present, rather than past, always run risk of becoming out-of-date even as they publish. Such, one of us (Tony Walter) feared was his fate when, only three weeks after publication of his piece Emotional Reserve and English Way of (Walter 1997), Diana Princess of Wales died unexpectedly in a car crash in a Paris underpass, along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, and driver of car. The massive public response to her…
Public hazards or private tragedies? An exploratory study of the effect of coroners' procedures on those bereaved by suicide
Explaining non-help-seeking amongst young adults with mental distress
Mental disorder is common amongst young adults and is associated with many adverse outcomes. Data, however, indicate that young adults are particularly unlikely to seek help for such distress. This paper describes a qualitative study of 23 young adults (aged 16 to 24 years) with mental distress. Interviewing was used to obtain detailed narratives of illness behaviour and to explore reasons for non-help-seeking. Help-seekers and non-help-seekers w…
Supporting adolescent emotional health in schools
Staff and students identified several ways in which schools can improve their support of adolescent emotional health, both within and outside the curriculum. However, such changes should be introduced as part of a wider consideration of how the whole school environment can be more supportive of students' emotional health. Clearer guidance at policy level, more rigorous evaluation of current interventions, and greater dissemination of good practic…
Part and parcel of teaching? Secondary school staff's views on supporting student emotional health and well‐being
The need for schools to support children and young people's mental and emotional health is increasingly emphasised in policy initiatives, yet the role of teachers in this has been under explored. This paper reports findings from qualitative, semi‐structured interviews with 14 school staff at eight secondary schools in England, examining emotional health and well‐being (EHWB) activities in which they were involved. Three emergent themes are discus…
“Crazy person is crazy person. It doesn’t differentiate”
Cultural considerations and reducing stigma are vital in improving understanding of mental illness and improving access to mental health services, along with building relationships and trust between the Somali community and health care workers
Patients’ Experiences of Emergency Hospital Care Following Self-Harm
Rates of hospital presentation for self-harm have increased in recent years, and although clinical practice guidelines on clinical provision prioritize positive patient experiences, the quality of provision remains variable. This systematic review provides an updated and extended synthesis of qualitative research on the following: (a) patients’ experiences of treatment following presentation to hospital; and (b) patients’ perceptions of the impac…
Theorising health professionals' prevention and management practices with children and young people experiencing self-harm
Self-harm in young people remains a significant concern. Studies of emergency departments have centred on negative professional attitudes. There has been limited interrogation and theorisation of what drives such attitudes, and the contexts that sustain them. Adopting a complex systems lens, this study aimed to explore how systems shape professional and patient interactions. It draws upon interviews with healthcare and affiliated professionals (n…
Web‐based support services to help prevent suicide in young people and students
The online world may provide an alternative means to engage young people and students with suicidal feelings, who are typically reluctant to seek help. We aimed to map, characterise and obtain user evaluation of current online suicide support for this group in order to assess the usefulness of current provision and how it may be improved. We conducted a mixed-methods study, comprised of an internet search, content analysis of site features and qu…
Contesting constructs and interrogating research methods
Discourses of self-harm, and also suicide, are often underpinned by a central tenet: prevention is the priority. This belief is seemingly so inscribed in research that it is rarely interrogated. The present paper re-analyses qualitative data from a hospital-based study of self-harm management and prevention practice. It aims to reflect upon, and disrupt, the authors' latent assumptions about the construct of 'prevention', while reflecting on the …
Emotional dysregulation in childhood and disordered eating and self‐harm in adolescence
BACKGROUND: Emotional dysregulation may be a risk factor for disordered eating and self-harm in young people, but few prospective studies have assessed these associations long-term, or considered potential mediators. We examined prospective relationships between childhood emotional dysregulation and disordered eating and self-harm in adolescence; and social cognition, emotional recognition, and being bullied as mediators. METHODS: We analysed Avo…
The positive and negative consequences of stress and its relationship with coping in medical students
Rates of mental health problems among medical students have prompted efforts to reduce stress during medical training. However, stress can be motivating and is a feature of clinical work. This qualitative study explores what makes an experience stressful, and how medical students respond to such experiences. In-depth interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 15 medical students. Experiences were distressing when they threatened student…
Young people’s attitudes towards online self-help single-session interventions
The current study highlights that whilst young people perceived there to be many benefits associated with online single-session interventions, including anonymity, easy access, and lack of disclosure, they expressed doubts regarding sufficiency and ability to address severe mental health problems. Despite this, the potentially preventative effects during the early stages of help-seeking were highlighted, alongside single-session interventions act…
Prevention and postvention guidance relating to self-harm and suicide for UK educational and youth organisations
Self-harm and suicide among young people are major public health concerns and delivering prevention and postvention support is crucial. Educational and youth organisations play a vital role in both prevention and postvention. However, evidence shows a lack of understanding of effective interventions, and limited awareness of the available guidance in this area. We reviewed current self-harm and suicide guidance available to education and youth or…
Exploring the role of modifiable sex/gender-specific risk and protective factors for anxiety among young people in high income countries
Anxiety is the most common mental health problem in young people and sex/gender differences have been consistently reported, with girls and young women experiencing twice the chance of anxiety compared to boys and young men. There is a limited understanding, however, of the underlying causes of these differences. This systematic review aims to synthesise research identifying modifiable sex/gender-specific risk and protective factors for anxiety a…
Psychology (12 works) · Mental health (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (5 works)