Lunch and Learn

A session around mental health for new parents

Thank you to everyone who attended our Lunch and Learn session yesterday. Our guest speaker, Mark Williams, fatherhood and mental health campaigner and author, shared his experiences of fatherhood and mental health and talked passionately about his work.

If you missed the session, you can watch the session recording here (please use your LSCFT email to access).

A copy of each of Mark’s books Daddy Blues and Fathers and Perinatal Mental Health will soon be added to library stock, please email us academic.library@nhs.uk if you would like to borrow these or any of our books on perinatal mental health.

A copy of Mark’s report, Fathers Reaching Out -Why Dads Matter: 10 years of findings on the importance of fathers’ mental health in the perinatal period, can be downloaded here.

In the meantime we would really appreciate any feedback on these sessions. If you have a few spare minutes we kindly ask you to complete our survey- which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete: https://www.surveymonkey.com

Lunch and Learn – Reminder

A session around mental health for new parents

This is just a reminder that the next Lunch and Learn session will be held via Teams on Thursday 17th March between 12pm and 1pm.

This session will feature Mark Williams, fatherhood and mental health campaigner and author, talking about mental health for new parents, with a particular focus on men.

Teams invites have been sent to all our Library registered users. If you would like an invite to be extended to you or your team please email: carmel.finley@lscft.nhs.uk