Mental Health in Development (or Ouch! Stop hitting yourself)
This talk will explore the various mental health pressures and impacts that development can have, as well as the strategies developers, and their workplaces, can use to deal with them to support those who may be suffering.
Many conversations have been started about mental health in technology, and it is important for these to continue. Parts of the development process can sometimes lead to situations where looking after yourself can be difficult and it is important not only to be able to minimise the risk of these, but to be able to recognise them and find ways out of them.
On the flipside, the amount of technology to help combat mental health is increasing, and what better demographic to test, use and further develop these technologies than developers themselves. This talk will also discuss the rise and continuity of technology to assist in mental health.
| Eloise Ducky | RMIT / Takeflight |  |
Ducky is currently studying computing at RMIT. Her main study interests are Games Technology & GIS. She works part time as a developer at local Web Development agency, Takeflight, where she mostly uses Django and a beautiful CMS, Wagtail.
Other interests Ducky has in her spare time are; attempting to learn foreign languages, playing games and teaching kids how to code and being involved in her local communities, she is the founder of the first Tasmania wide games jam, Tasjam, and is one of Tasmania's Girl Geek Coffee Ambassadors. She has been on many local Tasmanian tech community committees (e.g. the Australian Computer Society's Tasmanian branch, UTAS Computing Society), and continues to stay involved.