Debra Lampshire

Debra Joy Lampshire MNZM is a New Zealand trainer, educator, advocate and experience-based expert on mental health.

Lampshire in 2023

Work

Lampshire is project manager for the Psychological Interventions for Enduring Mental Illness Project at the Auckland District Health Board (ADHB). She is the first non-clinician to hold this position.[1]

She is also a senior tutor with the Centre for Mental Health Research and Policy Development at the University of Auckland.

She is chairperson for International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) New Zealand.[2]

Background

At the age of 17, she was committed to the former Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital in Karaka, having episodes of psychosis, including hearing voices. She has been in mental health care for 30 years, 18 of those in institutional care.[3] She then began to take charge of her own recovery and has transferred her own experience to educate others.

She has co-authored scientific papers and co-edited the book Experiencing Psychosis.

Honours and awards

Lampshire won the Making a Difference category of the Attitude Awards, and the Supreme Award at the 2016 Attitude Awards.[4] In the 2023 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to mental health.[5]

Works
  • Jim Geekie (editor), Patte Randal (editor), Debra Lampshire (editor): Experiencing Psychosis: Personal and Professional Perspectives. The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series, The International Society for Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses, 2011, ISBN 978-0415580335

See also

References
  1. University of Auckland (ed.). "Ms Debra Lampshire". Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  2. ISPS, ed. (31 July 2012). "Debra Lampshire". Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  3. Catrin Owen (8 November 2016). stuff.co.nz (ed.). "From Kingseat to advocating for better mental health". Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  4. "The Attitude Awards: 2016 Winners". Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  5. "New Year honours list 2023". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
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