Book Recommendation: ‘DBT skills workbook for teens: a fun guide to manage anxiety and stress, understand your emotions and learn effective communication skills’ By Teen Thrive: Foreword by Kristen Dahlin, DBT psychologist. History of DBT Dialectical...
It was that one moment: poetry and reflections on a life making relationships with children and young people by Dan Hughes Dan Hughes is the revered clinical psychologist and founder of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)- developed to treat children and young...
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (2007) At Purple House Clinic, we love reading and sharing children’s books, especially ones that offer positive, neurodiverse role-models. We know that through reading, children can explore identities, learn about different...
My Name is Leon is a powerful single-part TV drama, aired in June 2022 on BBC1 (now available on BBC iplayer.) It is based on the international-best selling book of the same name by Kit de Waal. Click to play BBC trailer (external link to YouTube): Warning:...
The Tale of the Feather of a Bee Hummingbird and a Glacial Boulder By Anon During a recent phone conversation with a GP locum about my daughter’s depression, he said something bewildering: He apologised to me about her autism. Stephen Fry infamously said that, if...
There’s no PLACE like home Lockdown, by nature of its social and economic implications, is putting unprecedented pressure on relationships of all kinds – personal and professional. There are families who are used to spending hours apart each day,...