When working as a psychiatrist people often tell me their main worries relate to things like where they’ll live, how to pay the bills, how to get out the house and meet people, or to have something ...

Dona Matthews reviews a study of the For Baby's Sake whole-family intervention, showing how parents' understanding of DVA and parenting shift.

New study finds parents are more likely to be diagnosed with a mental health disorder in the six months after their child is.

Drew (she/her) is a Lecturer in Public Health at La Trobe University, where her research focuses on place-based prevention, health equity, and public health policy. She uses mixed methods and ...

Income, mental health and physical health form a triangle of mutual influence. A new nationwide Danish cohort study asks what ...

Frustration remains one of life’s guarantees – as long as there are traffic jams, stubbed toes, and people talking in movie theatres, we’ll always have something to feel frustrated about. Yet for some ...

Antipsychotics can be life-changing medications, but they often come with an unwelcome plus-one: weight gain. For people taking clozapine or olanzapine, the numbers on the scales can climb alarmingly ...

Anyone who spends time with children and adolescents these days knows that they like hanging out in virtual spaces such as Roblox, and that immersive virtual reality (VR) games are becoming ...

For many autistic people I’ve met while working in an eating disorder charity, food restriction is less about appearance and more about survival. One individual described eating as “a battle with ...

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner – Requiem for a Nun (1951) This blog examines a recent systematic review and meta-analysis by Diamantis Toutountzidis et al., (2026), ...

Mental health awareness has increased dramatically (Hahn et al., 2023; Henderson, Potts and Robinson, 2020), particularly over the past two decades; however, mental health outcomes, especially among ...