We might all have a few things we really don’t like, spiders, heights or a trip to the dentist can see people running for the hills, but for people with a phobia, their fears are much, much stronger. Symptoms of phobias ...
Ask any parent about life with a teenager and you may well hear them recant tales about technology obsessed, monosyllabic teens who go off the rails.
Whilst this is an unfair stereotype of teenagers and often, fortunately, far from the truth, during ...
Thursday, 08 September 2016.
Posted in Family Issues
Family therapy can improve the rates of recovery and reduce the risks of relapse, as well as offer valuable and needed support to other family members.
If you or someone in your family has been diagnosed with a mental health issue, you ...
Anxiety affects about 1 in 5 children and teenagers in the UK. Whilst it is normal for us all to have worries at times, anxiety disorders are a lot more serious and can seriously affect your child’s social, personal and intellectual ...
The fastest growing group of people to be diagnosed with ADHD is women and in particular, mothers. Female ADHD is somewhat overshadowed by male ADHD - we know that boys are three times as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as ...
Ill health absences caused by the workplace cost the British economy a staggering £9.4bn in 2014, which works out to be about £18,000 per case[1]. With the majority of private sector employers being small companies (between 1 – 9 employees[2]), staff ill health ...
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in children is relatively common, with about 1% of all children suffering with the often debilitating illness. The average onset age is approximately 10 [1] - over 80% of adults with OCD showed signs of onset before ...
Clinical Partners offers a comprehensive Occupational Health service, to help you meet your key workplace needs. It is a bespoke service, tailored to your organisation and focuses on quality, adding value and keeping your costs to a minimum.
Traditional models of ‘buying’ ...
Whilst we can’t be sure what causes OCD in children, research has put forward several ideas, some of which remain quite controversial.
OCD can be a hugely debilitating illness, often impacting severely on the child’s quality of life. As the symptoms may ...
At first glance, this blog might seem a bit odd, laughable even - after all which parent hasn’t experienced the morning lament from their child who really doesn’t want to go to school that day?
But ‘school refusal’ or ‘school phobia’ is ...
