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Borderline Personality Disorder

How Does Unresolved Trauma in the Family Underpin Mental Health Conditions Including AN and BPD?

When families experience trauma, it changes the way family members relate to one another and affects the family system as a whole. Sometimes, families are able to resolve their trauma, especially if they already have a strong and supportive family system. In other cases, unresolved trauma causes long-term harm to relationships and interactions between family members. This disrupts young people’s emotional and social learning and can cause them to develop unhelpful or harmful thought patterns and behaviours as they attempt to cope with what they experience and observe.

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Family Therapy

Family Conflict: Protecting Children from Harm

Avoiding hostility and aggression – and finding healthy ways to resolve conflicts – are the best ways to protect children from harm. But there are also steps you can take to prevent behavioural, psychological, and social issues from developing among young people if hostile family conflicts do occur.

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Mental Health

The Impact of Parental Affairs on Children and Adolescents

Parental affairs are usually considered to be a serious breaking of the commitments of a relationship. They can give rise to a collection of emotions for both partners, including sadness, disappointment, betrayal, guilt, and shame. Parental affairs are linked to tension, conflict, and the breakdown of relationships.

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Eating disorder

Prepubescent Anorexia – Why Diagnosis in Under 14s is Rising

Identifying and treating anorexia as soon as possible is crucial to effective treatment and recovery. Without timely treatment, children can experience serious and long-term harm to their mental and physical health. This means that it’s really important to look out for the signs of anorexia in pre-teens as well as adolescents and seek professional support if there are any concerns.

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