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In 2019 we published our Public Engagement Review and Strategy, produced in consultation with people with experience of receiving CBT. As part of the plan proposed from this strategy, and in further recognition of the importance of public engagement, we launched an annual award “For a person who has significantly contributed to public engagement and/or the involvement of people with lived experience, in relation to CBT". Members are invited each year to nominate another BABCP member who has contributed to this.
The recipient of the 2024 BABCP Engagement & Involvement Award is Dr Lucy Maddox.
Lucy (pictured receiving the award with CEO Tommy McIlravey and President Dr Saiqa Naz) has been undertaking a Clinical Academic Fellowship at the University of Bath since 2022, including voices of people with experience of mental healthcare as central to the design of her research (The Compassion Project) which aims to co-produce an intervention to reduce empathy-based stress in staff and improve compassionate care for patients and families, on mental health wards for teenagers. Co-production is with health care staff, ex-patients and family members, all with experience of care from child and adolescent mental health wards.
Lucy is a regular contributor to both broadcast and printed media outlets, with recent work including consultation to ITV and Uncommon creative agency on the Get Britain Talking campaigns and most recent campaign to promote lgbtq+ support. As well as this, Lucy is a regular contributor to BBC World Service and Radio 4 'All in the Mind', and has spoken at the Cheltenham Science Festival, speaking with Claudia Hammond and Vincent Deary on the topic ‘Can we Change?’, Psychology in Action event for A Level students – speaking about clinical practice, research and communication, live podcast for Sense(less) about compassion research, as well as school visits and other talks (eg. British Science Festival, Science Showoff, Aye Write literature festival). Written controbutions include articles in The Guardian, Prospect, The Times, The Independent and BBC Science Focus Magazine.
Lucy is also the author of three popular psychology books – Blueprint: How Our Childhood Makes Us Who We Are, What is Mental Health? and A Year To Change Your Mind. The latter two books share CBT formulation and therapeutic techniques to encourage therapy ideas to be accessible to everyone. A Year To Change Your Mind is being translated into Russian and Arabic, and was published in the US in 2024. This was also serialised on BBC Sounds.
Prior to her current studies, Lucy was BABCP Senior Clinical Advisor from 2017 to 2022. During this time, Lucy developed our first Public Engagement Strategy in consultation with people with experience of receiving CBT, and worked with others to embed lived experience voices within organisational structures. Lucy also created the Let's Talk About CBT podcast, and led on this for the first two series, ensuring lived experience voices were emphasised in episodes. Lucy also championed lived experience and outreach opportunities during BABCP Annual Conferences.
During Lucy's early work on child and adolescent mental health wards from 2008 to 2017, she consulted with young people to devise tailored CBT group interventions and to input into teaching, examples of how Lucy includes people with lived experience in a variety of creative, strategic and research activities.
Previous award recipients