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...Care courses and qualifications. Politics, it has been said, is the art of the possible. One aspect of possibility when it comes to politics that is starting to receive the attention it deserves is the potential for political events, processes, or ideologies to give rise to grief, and grief of major proportions. This is what is increasingly being referred to as political...

...caring for a completely dependent infant. For some, this adjustment can be deeply unsettling. Parents who experience distress often describe feeling disconnected from themselves and others. Thoughts may not feel like their own. Everyday objects or sounds can become frightening. The world can feel unsafe or unreal. If you are concerned about yourself, or about someone you...

...care professionals using clinical methods and instruments. Egypt, Sudan and Guinea have some of the highest prevalence rates of medicalised FGM even though the practice is illegal in these countries. The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2025) has sounded the alarm that one in four FGM procedures are now medicalised amounting to over 50 million women and girls being...

...adults between the ages of 16 and 64 years met the clinical diagnostic criteria for at least one emotional disorder (or common mental disorder; McManus et al., 2009). Of these, depression and anxiety (or a mix of the two, called ‘mixed anxiety and depression’ or MAD) were by far the most common, as Figure 1 shows. Note that the term prevalence is a scientific term...