SE01E09_On Mental health in high meaning and high stress careers with Tarli Young

In today’s episode I am joined by PhD candidate Tarli Young from the University of Queensland in Australia. After 8 years and 15 countries in the aid sector, Tarli wanted to better understand the mental health issues we as aid workers face - so she went back to university.

Her research aims to increase understanding of aid worker mental health and wellbeing and to provide an intervention to decrease psychological distress and increase wellbeing, and as a result of her research she has developed a wellbeing programme tailored to the needs of aid workers using Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT). Anyone interested to be part of the piloting phase (for free) can sign up to this interesting 4-module course here: https://exp.psy.uq.edu.au/aware/.