Curriculum vitae

Memberships

2021	EU COST Action FOSTREN – Fostering and Strengthening Approaches to Reducing Coercion in European Mental Health Services
2021	European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group (EViPRG)
2020	Young Medical Ethics Network (JMED) of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine
2020	Generation PSY of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN), Section Ethics in Psychiatry

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Coercion and psychological pressure in mental healthcare
• Reproductive ethics
• Intersectionality in the context of mental healthcare
• Clinical ethics consultation
• Research ethics

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in peer-review journals

• 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, 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 (forthcoming): Intersectionality and Discriminatory Practices Within Mental Healthcare: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Evidence Synthesis. Psychiatric Services.

• 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 (forthcoming): 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

Short Articles and Commentaries

• 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

Editorships

• 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

Bookchapters

• 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.) Violence and Coercion 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 (in press): Clinical Ethics Support in Mental Healthcare. In: Helmchen H, Sartorius N (eds.) Ethics in Psychiatry. Springer.