Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a 'single session' group, early intervention, multidisciplinary, education programme (entitled the Fun not Fuss with Food group programme) designed to improve children's problem eating and mealtime behaviours. Design A quasi-experimental time-series design incorporating data collection, twice before and twice following the intervention. Setting A health district within the southeast region of Queensland, Australia. Method Data were collected using the Children's Eating and Mealtime Behaviour Inventory - Revised (CEBI-R) and the Family Demographic Questionnaire. Results Parents who attended the Fun not Fuss with Food group programme reported significant improvements in their child's problem eating and mealtime behaviours and reported reductions in parental concerns regarding their child's eating and mealtime behaviours. Conclusion A single session, early intervention, group education programme for families with children with problem eating and mealtime behaviours is appropriate and effective. Therefore, early intervention group education programmes should be considered as a strategy for this client group.

The background to complicated grieving is discussed with particular reference to individuals who were responsible for the death of a loved one. Aspects of management are presented, and a review of criminal statistics demonstrates the likely scale of this type of bereavement reaction on a national basis.

Data from all 37 admissions under Sections 35, 36 and 38 to two regional Secure Units for the thirty months commencing 1 October 1984 were collected from case records. Some characteristics of these patients were compared with all other admissions and it was found that although the sex ratio is the same in the two groups, the patients admitted on the sections under examination were younger. Details of diagnosis and eventual outcome are presented, and these findings are discussed along with conclusions about the usefulness of these new provisions, and the way in which they are being utilized.

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