Women's Mental Health

Turning rhetoric into reality – sharing practice perspectives and strategies for action on women’s mental health

It has been 12 years since Mind’s Stress on Women Campaign and two years since the publication of the Department of Health's National Women and Mental Health Strategy. How far have mental health services come in meeting women's needs? The recent SPN study day explored...

The day was an opportunity to network, hear from people in the field, share practical strategies, question policy makers and contribute your experience and ideas.

Topics included:

How to make an impact as a user group without wearing yourself out

Making wards work better for women

Alternatives to hospital – developing and making women’s crisis houses work

Hearing woman’s stories – getting good quality information

Abuse doesn’t have to equal diagnosis – organising people and services around violence against women

Imaging ourselves – women’s mental health on film and video and

Women in prison and secure settings

You can read more information from they day via the links below or download the study day paper here.

Women's Mental Health Study Day

New women's paper: women at risk
Photos from the study day
Women speak for change
Women in secure settings
Sharing and Information Key to Survival

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