Women's Mental Health
>> Event Overview
This powerful session looks at mental health through a female lens - focussing on prevention, early intervention and health promotion.
Social and economic factors can put women at greater risk of poor mental health than men. Around one in five women have a common mental health disorder, such as depression and anxiety. While there can be many reasons why these develop, some specific risk factors affect many women, including life events such as pregnancy and menopause. When women find it hard to talk about difficult feelings, they tend to internalise them. This can lead to certain common mental health disorders. This session is aimed at women - and at anyone who has women and girls that they care about, and live or work with.
>> Learning Objectives
During this session, you will:
- explore some of the specific risk factors and protective factors that can influence women’s mental health.
- leave with some practical tools that will help you to improve and support mental health and wellbeing.
>> Speaker Biography
Steve is a director and one of the co-founders of MHIB - and his vision is to lead a global shift in mental health in the workplace. He is passionate about helping businesses to create meaningful and impactful wellbeing programmes.
As well as being a major driving force in the business Steve is also an experienced Mental Health First Aid instructor and has travelled the length and breadth of the UK to deliver MHFA courses and manager & leadership training for workplace mental health.
Steve has 15+ years of business ownership experience, having established, run, and sold a successful media production business. His focus is now on mental health in the workplace and he has considerable experience working, volunteering and advising in this area.
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