Divorce, Separation and Eating Disorders
17 February 2025
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When parents divorce or separate, it’s usually a formative event in a young person’s life. Sometimes, parental divorce can cause serious emotional distress or even
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Anorexia Nervosa and Critical Parents
7 February 2025
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If a young person develops an eating disorder, it’s not the fault of the family. Eating disorders develop as a complex result of social, biological,
Why Family Therapy Helps Anorexia Treatment
13 January 2025
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Families usually constitute young people’s closest relationships and support systems. That’s why family therapy is so important in the treatment of anorexia nervosa. Working with young people and their families, family therapy sessions support families in overcoming unhelpful behaviours that may reinforce eating disorder symptoms, replacing them with positive systems of relationships that nurture lasting change.
How Family Stress Can Maintain Anorexia
9 January 2025
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Families are not to blame for the development of eating disorders. However, eating disorders are serious mental health conditions that can strain the relationships within any family. It’s common for families affected by eating disorders to face challenges relating to one another and caring for a young person with an eating disorder.
Why Families in Mexico Choose Residential Therapy
17 December 2024
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Many families in Mexico are choosing The Wave Clinic for residential mental health support for a young person. The Wave’s residential programs combine exceptional clinical
What Happens to Families When Children Self-Harm?
13 December 2024
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Families are like systems of close relationships that develop, change, and affect one another. This means that the behaviours of one family member affect all
Divorce and Young People’s Mental Health
1 October 2024
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Divorce and unhealthy parental relationships can have a profound effect on young people. They’re linked to emotional and behavioural mental health problems both during adolescence and young adulthood. This means that supporting parents undergoing conflict – and helping young people manage its consequences – should be a priority.
Understanding Internal Family Systems Therapy
20 September 2024
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Internal family systems (IFS) therapy is a type of psychotherapy that understands each person – or mind – as having multiple parts. These inner parts are all valuable, but sometimes experiences like trauma can push parts into more extreme roles. This can cause a person to feel and act in negative or harmful ways and pull them away from their genuine, authentic self.
Why Family Therapy Matters in Mental Health Treatment
16 September 2024
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Families play a huge role in child and adolescent mental health. As some of the young people’s closest relationships, families can constitute a support system
Supporting Young People and Families in Jakarta
19 January 2024
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rom our centre in Indonesia, we offer specialist, dedicated youth mental health support for children and adolescents, in residential and outpatient settings. As neighbours of Jakarta, we’re able to offer outpatient follow-up psychiatry to families at our centre, as well as to make the trip to Jakarta ourselves to provide treatment close to home.
More Than Just a Spoon: How the Sensory Experience of Cutlery Can Shape Eating Disorder Recovery
30 July 2026
When we think about eating disorders, our attention naturally turns to food. We talk about nutrition, meal plans, fear foods and the emotions that can
Is It Ever OK to Lie to Children? Understanding Honesty, Protection and Trust in Parenting
13 July 2026
As parents and caregivers, most of us will face moments when telling the whole truth feels incredibly difficult. Whether it’s explaining the death of a
Emotionally-Based School Refusal
22 June 2026
Emotionally-based school refusal is often associated with anxiety. But there are many emotions and internal experiences that can lead to school refusal. These include separation anxiety, social anxiety, sadness and distress.
