If you want to make just one change to your life this year which will improve your mental wellbeing, getting active is a pretty good candidate. Regular physical activity brings a wide range of psychological benefits, and improved self-esteem is…
Puppies can be adorably naughty when you first adopt them, but for many this is the best time to begin training. In this article, we’ll look at what makes training so important both for your dog’s happiness and your own.…
Although episodes tend to peak between the ages of three and six, most kids will start having night terrors and nightmares when they’re around two years old. Keeping your toddler’s bedtime routine light and happy is believed to be one…
Eating disorders can cause serious psychological, physical and social harm to a young person. Unfortunately, in the UK, NHS studies have shown that they are on the rise in children. These disorders are not limited to anorexic teenage girls; they…
April is Stress Awareness Month: an event that has taken place every year since 1992 to raise awareness of the modern stress epidemic, its causes and its cures. This year, we’re marking it with a list of handy tips to…
As a spectrum condition, autism can affect people in a range of different ways, meaning there are autistic people with varying characteristics in all areas of society and all sectors of the working world. But with a job market designed…
In 1906, Dr. Alois Alzheimer first described the “peculiar disease” which affected a patient known as Auguste D., who had developed unfounded suspicions about her family, severe memory loss and other psychological issues. When Auguste D.’s illness had first become…
Adults and children can be equally affected by the stress and anxiety that the coronavirus crisis can cause. The gap through which vulnerable children can fall has the potential to grow much wider when times are turbulent, with schooling interrupted…
It’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week, a time to shine a spotlight on disordered eating and educate ourselves and each other about this family of conditions which is all too common. In this article, we want to give you the basics…
Bowel cancer diagnoses have been given to about 268,000 people living in the UK today. Bowel cancer has the second-highest mortality rate of all cancers, and is the fourth most common cancer in the UK. People aged 70 or over…