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...
Domestic violence is defined as “any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence, or abuse between those aged...
Whilst psychiatric hospitalisation can be lifesaving (Wang & Colucci, 2017), it is also associated with a wide range of adverse clinical outcomes (Walter...
Implications for Clinical Practice
Healthcare professionals should reassure pregnant women that paracetamol remains a safe choice. Evidence-based communication is key, especially when misinformation can...
The postpartum period is characterised by its complexities, challenges, and vulnerabilities across all areas of life. Unsurprisingly, these difficulties extend to mental health...
Psychiatry has long been plagued by the fact that despite diagnoses of things like depression and anxiety being considered distinct disorders, they tend...
The gut microbiome consists of approximately 20-100 trillion microorganisms, encompassing at least a thousand distinct bacterial species (Sender et al., 2016). The microbiome...