Birth parents of adopted children are using social networking sites such as Facebook to defy privacy rules and make unplanned contact with their children, reports the Guardian. Adoption agencies have been inundated with calls from distressed adoptive parents whose children have been contacted out of the blue by their natural parents using social networking sites. read more »

A major study conducted by the Mental Health Foundation has uncovered figures suggesting that more than one in ten Brit’s feel lonely “often”, as more and more of us chose to live alone, work long hours and choose to communicate using technology rather than in person. Though the internet has revolutionised the way we communicate read more »

Tesco have pledged their support in a promise made by the coalition government to ban budget cost alcohol in England and Wales, reports BBC News. Recent polls that Tesco have commissioned found that it is excessive drinking which is at the route of most anti-social behaviour. The supermarket chain would happily support a a ban read more »

Counselling Directory has only recently reported the fact that the current economic climate is having a devastating effect on Britain’s mental health and updated research has further highlighted the matter. As mentioned last week by Counselling Directory, mental health charity Mind has compiled a study on workplace stress and have found that 10 per cent read more »

Recent research has suggested that developing Alzheimer’s has a lot to do with your genes and is really beyond our control. This could be a worrying find for anyone with a family history of Alzheimer’s but it is not just all about our genetics and most people who have a parent or grandparent with the read more »

Throughout life most of us will experience the loss of someone close to us and in response will go through a period of grieving. Bereavement is a natural response to death, but what about grieving for someone who is still with us? Dementia is a debilitating illness which will dramatically change the person you once read more »

Each month Counselling Directory receives numerous visitors to our website, each one as important as the last. Every visitor counts, whether they are searching for a counsellor in their area or simply looking for information or news, either way we want to make sure we are providing them with the information and help they are read more »

Mental health charity Mind have conducted research which suggests that more people than ever are calling in sick and leaving their jobs as a result of workplace stress, reports the Independent. According to Mind, record numbers of employees are calling in sick to escape the stress of heavy workloads and office bullying, some even going read more »

A staggering amount of young children and teenagers are forced to look after parents who have problems with drink or drugs. BBC Newsbeat spoke to a number of leading charities and found that there are at least 520,000 under 18s who are currently working as unpaid carers for their parents. Most children in this position read more »

According recent research military personnel returning from war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq have been turning to alcohol in a dangerous fashion but are currently not suffering with the mental problems previously predicted. After returning from one of the two countries it was found that one in seven military personal had turned heavily to drink read more »