Akademischer und Beruflicher Werdegang

Mitgliedschaften

2021	FOSTREN (Fostering and Strengthening Approaches to Reducing Coercion in European Mental Health Services), gefördert durch COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
2021	European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group (EViPRG)
2020	Junges Netzwerk Medizinethik (JMED) der Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin
2020	Generation PSY der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN), Sektion Ethik in der Psychiatrie

ARBEITSSCHWERPUNKTE

• Zwang und Psychologischer Druck in der Psychiatrie
• Reproduktionsethik
• Intersektionalität im Kontext der Psychiatrie
• Klinische Ethikberatung
• Forschungsethik

PUBLIKATIONSVERZEICHNIS

Artikel in Peer-Review Journals

• Braun E, Faissner F, Hempeler C, Markwort S, Müller T, Pollmächer T, Radenbach K, Roth F, Schomburg A-K, Simon A, Gather J (2025): Implementing clinical ethics support services in psychiatry: A qualitative study. Nursing ethics. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330251366595

• Hempeler C, Bowman-Smart H, Nov-Klaiman T, Horn R (2025): Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany: current controversies and developments. Journal of Medical Ethics. https://doi.10.1136/jme-2024-110457

• Faissner M, Braun E, Efkemann S, Gaillard A-S, Haferkemper I, Hempeler C, Heuer I, Lux U, Potthoff S, Scholten M, Spiegel S, Stefaniak C, Thesing M, Werning A, Gather J (2025): Establishing a peer advisory board in a mental health ethics research group – challenges, benefits, facilitators and lessons learned. Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1516996

• Faissner M, Braun E, Hempeler C (2025): Epistemic oppression and the concept of coercion in psychiatry. Synthese 205, 24 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04853-z

• Hempeler C, Scholten M, Gather J, Juckel G, Potthoff S (2024): Treatment pressures and the predicament of family care: A grounded theory study with relatives of people with a serious mental health condition. Qualitative Health Research 2024;0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323241300042

• Hempeler C, Potthoff S, Scholten M, Juckel G, Jakov G (2024): Strategies to promote treatment compliance: a grounded theory study with relatives of people with a serious mental health condition. BMC Psychiatry 24, 490. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05907-9

• Hempeler C, Windel A-S, Schneider-Reuter L, Carlet J, Philipsen L, Juckel G, Gather J, Yeboah A, Faissner M (2024): Intersectional Discrimination in Mental Health Care: A Systematic Review With Qualitative Evidence Synthesis. Psychiatric Services. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20230252

• Faissner M, Brünig L, Gaillard A-S, Jieman A-T, Gather J, Hempeler C (2024): Intersectionality as a tool for clinical ethics consultation in mental healthcare. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-024-00156-w

• Hempeler C, Braun E, Potthoff S, Gather J, Scholten M (2023): When treatment pressures become coercive: A context-sensitive model of informal coercion in mental healthcare. The American Journal of Bioethics. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2232754

• Potthoff S, Hempeler C, Gather J, Gieselmann A, Vollmann J, Scholten M (2023): Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-023-10169-5

• Potthoff S, Gather J, Hempeler C, Gieselmann A, Scholten M (2022): „Voluntary in quotation marks“: a conceptual model of psychological pressure in mental healthcare based on a grounded theory analysis of interviews with service users. BMC Psychiatry. 2022;22(1):186. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03810-9

Kurzartikel und Kommentare

• Scholten M, Braun E, Potthoff S, Gather J, Hempeler C (2025): Focusing on Service User Perspectives to Uncover the Boundary Between Treatment Pressure and Informal Coercion. The American Journal of Bioethics, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2025.2470680

• Hempeler C, Braun E, Faissner M, Gather J, Scholten M (2024): Preferences of Individual Mental Health Service Users Are Essential in Determining the Least Restrictive Type of Restraint. AJOB Neuroscience, 15:1,19-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2023.2292502

• Hempeler C, Gather J, Kleditzsch A M, Scholten M (2022): Selbstbestimmung im Rahmen pflegerischer Versorgung: Die Bedeutung von Einwilligungsfähigkeit und Freiwilligkeit. Psych Pflege Heute 28(06):290-295. doi: 10.1055/a-0964-2302.

• Hempeler C, Gather J, Haberstroh J, Trachsel M (2022): Shared Decision-Making bei Patient_innen mit psychischen Störung oder kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen. Ther Umsch. 2022;79(8):393-400. https://doi.org/10.1024/0040-5930/a001380

Herausgeberinnenschaften

• Potthoff S, Hempeler C, Scholten M (eds., 2023): Research ethics in qualitative health research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231189335

Buchkapitel

• Hempeler C, Scholten M, Werning A, Gather J (2024): What is coercion and (how) can it be justified in mental healthcare? An ethical analysis. In: Richter D, Whittington R, Hallett N, Eneje E (eds.) Coercion and Violence in Mental Health Settings – Causes, Consequences, Management. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61224-4_7

• Gather J, Hempeler C, Faissner M, Vollmann J (2005): Clinical Ethics Support in Mental Healthcare. In: Helmchen H, Sartorius N (eds.) Ethics in Psychiatry. Springer. https://doi.10.1007/978-94-024-2274-0_38