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...
You might have heard people talk about ‘the depression gene’ or ‘the schizophrenia gene’ – these comments are misleading. While there is substantial...
Prisons are important public-health settings: housing an estimated 11.5 million people worldwide (Fair & Walmsley, 2024). The health needs of people in prison...
Using sociodemographic information alone, the model had only moderate success in predicting which teenagers would later develop depression. But when biological markers were added,...