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Couples experiencing marital distress approach courts to make important decisions about their marital relationships. This journey from a private life to a public space like court may not be an easy one for many couples and may have dense emotional and psychological undertones. It is therefore pertinent to have a space to deal with mental health, stress, and well being related issues in the court set up.

The dominant biomedical model neglects the person-centred approach that focuses on people’s lived experience. Such an approach is crucial to demedicalise mental health in sport, to empower Black professional footballers, and to use their interpretative, authentic, first-person voices as the basis for a transcultural model to mental health.

Kids could tell gang members they were ‘going boxing’ rather than hanging around the streets without fear of being laughted at. One young person told researchers: “Instead of getting respect from other gang members you get respect from everyone in the gym.”

Meanwhile, Voon says there is good evidence that excessive consumption of porn can lead to ‘habituation’: the desire for novel stimuli. This means regular viewers crave more hardcore scenes the more they watch. This is a trend that many men have reported anecdotally and sought treatment for.

Regression analyses showed that although the pattern differed somewhat between diagnostic groups, high initial self-love and low self-attack/self-blame predicted a more positive 12-month outcome.

Countless studies have shown that the more connected and supported we feel in our communities, the lower the levels of distress. Hence building compassionate and supportive communities would be a major target for intervention and prevention. Psychologists have a major role in helping people understand what they are caught up in and to begin to soften the chains of selfcriticism, self-blame and shame.