Children and young people with anorexia nervosa (AN) are often recommended family-based treatment as the first-line intervention (Gorrell et al., 2019). The child who has struggled to eat – limiting their intake, counting calories, adhering to rigid rules about food – is now re-fed by their parents and has the control over food taken away from them in efforts to restore their physical health. The parents who may have previously transitioned away from being responsible for their child’s intake, are now empowered by the treatment team to take...
Over the past two decades there has been increasing interest in, and research undertaken on, the potential benefits of expressive writing interventions for...
If you have ever caught yourself double-checking (or even triple-checking) whether you locked the front door or unplugged your hair curler, you will...
If you’ve ever sat in a conference on inflammation and depression, you’ll recognise the scene: a researcher presents another trial testing anti-inflammatory drugs...
Around 20% of women during the perinatal period experience peripartum depression (PPD). PPD has been found to have significant impacts on the mental...
Exposure to natural disasters increases the risk of mental health problems in children and adolescents, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety...
Using advanced statistical methods, the team grouped the disorders into five genetically related categories, revealing particularly strong overlap between conditions such as depression,...