When thinking about mental health as a cause area in EA, I think it’s important to separate global mental health (e.g., anxiety and depression globally) from mental health amongst impact oriented individuals (e.g., EAs). I refer to the latter as development of impact oriented individuals as it wouldn’t only consider mental health but also things such as skill building or character development. All with the intention of increasing their capacity for doing the most good.
Can I ask why you didn’t mention Effective Peer Support?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Sebastian. In this HIPsy pilot project, one survey has addressed the infrastructural needs within the global mental field. This is the one I created the excerpt for in the post. The demand for mental health-related services among impact-oriented individuals has been addressed by a separate survey – the results and the corresponding other EA forum post are linked above. Effective Peer Support is a different project, creating and evaluating a specific intervention for changemakers, which is why I don’t mention it here.
Thanks for the post Inga.
When thinking about mental health as a cause area in EA, I think it’s important to separate global mental health (e.g., anxiety and depression globally) from mental health amongst impact oriented individuals (e.g., EAs). I refer to the latter as development of impact oriented individuals as it wouldn’t only consider mental health but also things such as skill building or character development. All with the intention of increasing their capacity for doing the most good.
Can I ask why you didn’t mention Effective Peer Support?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Sebastian. In this HIPsy pilot project, one survey has addressed the infrastructural needs within the global mental field. This is the one I created the excerpt for in the post. The demand for mental health-related services among impact-oriented individuals has been addressed by a separate survey – the results and the corresponding other EA forum post are linked above.
Effective Peer Support is a different project, creating and evaluating a specific intervention for changemakers, which is why I don’t mention it here.
Understood. So Rethinking Well-being is quite distinct from HIPsy?