Stress causes and treatments
Stress can be an extremely debilitating condition; among the 12 million people who visit their GP each year with a ...
Mental Health
All about Dementia
Understanding the Term ‘Dementia’ Dementia is a term used to describe a group of symptoms which include loss of memory, ...
Anxiety causes and treatments
What is anxiety? Like related conditions such as stress, anxiety can be a very debilitating condition that can overcome people ...
All about eating disorders
An eating disorder is a mental illness, which means that an individual will have a very complex relationship with food ...
All about Bipolar Disorder
Understanding the Term ‘Bipolar Disorder’ Bipolar disorder, formerly known as ‘manic depression’, is a serious mental illness that is characterised ...
Online Counselling Courses – Everything You Need to Know
The UK is currently experiencing a chronic shortage of counsellors and mental health workers. According to government sources, NHS counselling ...
What is Unconditional Positive Regard?
Like so many psychological terms and theories, unconditional positive regard was initially introduced as a tool for counsellors and psychoanalysts ...
What is Integrative Counselling?
Integrative counselling is a relatively innovative approach that is used in both counselling and psychotherapy. A total of 1.46 million ...
Mental Capacity Act
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 is an important law that impacts individuals with learning disabilities, or limited mental capacity in ...
Catastrophising – What it is and Treatment Methods
Do you often think that the worst might happen? When organising any event, do you automatically consider the worst possible ...
How to Become a Mental Health Nurse
Mental health nurses are nurses that are qualified to work in both hospitals and within the community to help to ...
How to Become a Clinical Psychologist
If you have always had an interest in understanding what other people think (and why they think it) then you ...
How to Become a Child Counsellor
A child counsellor is a specialist psychotherapist who has received additional training to enable them to work directly with children ...
How to Become a Child Psychologist
If you want to work with children and help to provide them with a better future then looking for child ...
All About OCD
There are currently around three quarters of a million individuals in the UK suffering from OCD, with the condition affecting ...