Director’s Notes

There have always been stories of people discovering that the person they called ‘Dad’ was not their biological father with…

At a time when we are increasingly concerned by the extent and nature of family violence, corporal punishment of children…

A parent whose child is starving to death in the grip of anorexia nervosa is in no doubt that this…

Five years ago, if someone had spoken of AI, we may have assumed they were referring to the initials of…

Cumulative childhood trauma (CCT), experiences of different types of interpersonal trauma before 18 years old, has negative consequences for a…

In 2021 the National Rural Health Alliance suggested that, while the prevalence of people living with a diagnosed mental illness…

September 10th marked the third WHO, World Suicide Prevention Day with the theme ‘Changing the Narrative on Suicide’. With 720,000…

The treatment of choice for young people with anorexia nervosa is (FT-ED), eating disorders focused family therapy with the Maudsley…

Systemic practitioners and their clients often come to therapy with very different views about the pathway to change, especially when…

Systemic therapists can sometimes find themselves corralled by the seemingly inflexible psychiatric and mental health diagnoses presented by their clients….

Practitioners finding themselves embroiled in the same couple argument, session after session can become disheartened and the sense of frustration,…

A common adage suggests ‘if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.’ In a vibrant, kind, and…