#LetsTalkMentalHealth Channel:
Mental Health Awareness:Lord Richard Layard
18 May 2018
Lord Richard Layard discusses the relation between happiness and mental health - can your financial status determine your happiness? The interview explores the battle to get money from the Government for children's mental health services and converses with a musician and mental health campaigner about different coping mechanisms for good mental health.
Lord Layard was interviewed by Katy Pickles for ESRC Mental Health Leadership programme, led by Professor Louise Arseneault.
Professor Arseneault is the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Mental Health Leadership Fellow. Throughout her three year fellowship, she is investigating the impact of social relationships, in a contemporary Britain on mental health and wellbeing. This includes interviewing experts in the mental health field, to form the #LetsTalkMentalHealth series.
Other interviewees include: Luciana Berger MP (Shadow Minister for Mental Health); Peter Fonagy (Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families); Michael Rutter (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London); Sarah Hughes (Chief Executive of Centre for Mental Health).Full series of interviews can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZaiJpha3M9BcteZGrhpFfw/featured