In commemorating World Mental Health Day, the Richmond Foundation held a two-day conference on Understand-ing and Managing Personality Disorders.
The conference provided participants with the latest theoretical perspectives on managing personality disorder, skills on how to assess and diagnose these conditions and the opportunity to discuss best practice with experts in the field.
The purpose of the conference was to enhance local expertise in managing per-sonality disorder. Speakers included Josanne Holloway, Caroline Logan, Angela Busuttil, Walter Busuttil, Lisa Davies, Michael Fitzgerald, Edward Curmi, Ethel Felice, Charlie Azzopardi and Damian Spiteri.
On World Mental Health Day on October 10, the foundation’s board of trustees paid a courtesy visit to Mount Carmel Hospital in Attard, where they met psychiatry chairman Anton Grech. The foundation also organised a beach clean-up on October 12 at Għajn Tuffieħa, where around 25 service users, members of staff and volunteers of the Gaia Foundation actively participated in this green event.
The Richmond Foundation is committed to continue promoting mental health, preventing mental illnesses, disseminating information related to mental health problems and addressing mental illness in the community.
The foundation expressed deep concern for the fact that another World Mental Health Day passed without the new Mental Health Act and without Malta having a National Mental Health Strategy. The Mental Health Act has been in the pipeline for more than a decade.
For more information, visit www.richmond.org.mt or call 2148 2336.