Mental Health Conference in Reading

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is to hold a conference on mental health issues on March 3rd at the Calcot Hotel.

Latest research will be presented and seminars with experts in the field and those effected by the issues will be held.

According to Professor Roz Shafran, Co-director of the Charlie Waller Institute of Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment at the University of Reading, suicides in men outnumber those in women by 4:1, but reasons for this high rate of suicide is a difficult question to answer.

170 British Soldiers have died in action during the Iraq conflict, but in a similar period 6,729 young men aged 15-34 have killed themselves in Britain alone.

CALM (The Campaign Against Living Miserably) explains that in times of economic trouble financial stress can be an additional pressure which may contribute to people deciding to end their own lives.

Booking forms can be found here and all proceeds will go to the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust.