Authority, Responsibility & Diagnosis
Problems, symptoms, and dynamics appear in batches and recently I have encountered a challenging dynamic working with young people. The…
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If Only it Were Simple
Children’s books are comforting. Even those that address highly painful and difficult issues like John Boyne’s The Boy in the…
Read moreViolence in the House
We have long been aware of the dangers of home for women but to discover that the house of our…
Read moreWe’re Better Together
‘In 1623 when seriously ill, John Donne, the English poet wrote ‘No man is an island entire of itself; every man…
Read moreWhat if they can hear me?
What if they can hear me? The sanctity and privacy of the therapeutic conversation has been an underpinning principal to…
Read moreLockdown, Parenting Stress and Children’s Emotional Regulation
With heightened focus on the mental health consequences of the pandemic and government resources directed to addressing this, it is…
Read moreWho Wants to Stay in?
The easing of lockdown restrictions is generally anticipated with enthusiasm, but it appears not everyone is happy. Writing in The…
Read moreKeeping Training Alive Through Lockdown
Keeping Training Alive Through Lockdown Practitioners faced multiple challenges when the pandemic hit, and the world went into lock down….
Read moreWhen Time Stops – The Value of Ritual in a Time of COVID
Ritual, Evan Imber Black writes, ‘hold us, shape us, sustain us, and connect us’. Through the pandemic many of our…
Read moreWho Helps the Helpers?
Who Helps the Helpers? Every night our televisions share footage of distressed families whose members are gravely ill or died…
Read moreThe Amazing Social Experiment Nobody Wanted
For most of us the world we entered and grew up in has been relatively safe and stable with our…
Read moreADHD – Mismatch or Illness?
ADHD – Mismatch or Illness? At 6, Lilly was in lots of trouble. She and her family had been referred…
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