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Mental health and well-being in primatology: Breaking the taboos |
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| Authors: | Joanna M Setchell Steve Unwin Susan M Cheyne |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, UK;2. Wildlife Health Australia, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
Orangutan Veterinary Advisory Group, Oxford, UK IUCN Conservation Planning Specialist Group, Apple Valley, Minnesota, USA;3. Borneo Nature Foundation International, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK IUCN Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group Section on Small Apes, Gland, Switzerland |
| Abstract: | We hope to raise awareness of mental health and well-being among primatologists. With this aim in mind, we organized a workshop on mental health as part of the main program of the Winter meeting of the Primate Society of Great Britain in December 2021. The workshop was very well received. Here, we review the main issues raised in the workshop, and supplement them with our own observations, reflections, and reading. The information we gathered during the workshop reveals clear hazards to mental health and suggests that we must collectively acknowledge and better manage both the hazards themselves and our ability to cope with them if we are to avert disaster. We call on institutions and learned societies to lead in seeking solutions for the benefit of primatologists and primatology. |
| Keywords: | best practice fieldwork mental health pandemic primatology support well-being |