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Children and young people with anorexia...

Can positive mental images help...

Worry can feel relentless. For people...

from CAMHS to adult mental health services

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...

Out at work?...

Work can be a place of identity and belonging, but it can also be a source of stress that undermines mental health, especially...

Genes, brains and...

There’s no getting around it, self-harm and related thoughts and behaviours are a big deal, with one in four adolescents reporting ever having...

One more tool...

Can you guess what the most commonly attended number of therapy sessions is? It’s one session. With this in mind, single-session interventions (SSIs)...

The arts promote...

The evidence for arts promoting health and preventing disease has become well-established in recent years (see the seminal review by Fancourt and Finn...

Why Drinking Enough...

He continued: “Although the low fluid group did not report being thirstier than the high fluid group, they had darker and more concentrated...

Dirty air, ageing...

Dementia is a growing global health challenge, with over 55 million people living with dementia worldwide and numbers expected to rise sharply in...

Global Insights into...

Preliminary Findings Although full results from my analyses are forthcoming, some preliminary findings already provide important insights. A substantial proportion of students reported having...

My Journey With...

Freedom After my diagnosis, I finally accepted that I wasn’t a ‘freak’ or a ‘loser.’ I have a mental health disorder. That understanding became...

Silencing the voices?...

Some years ago, I treated a young woman who was bothered a lot by hearing voices. The voices were negative: calling her names...