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...
Prescriptions for antidepressant medication continue to rise in the UK and globally, partly driven by increasing long-term treatment (Mars et al., 2017). Recent...
Why do some people develop psychiatric disorders while others do not? Despite decades of research, this question remains difficult to answer. Psychiatric disorders...
Worldwide, about 600,000 deaths were attributable to drug overdose in 2019 (WHO, 2025). Evidence suggests that the risk of overdose is elevated among...