See also, 'Indigenous Wisdom'
Navigating Climate Emotions with Dr. Britt WrayDr. Britt Wray is a science communicator and the author of two books. Her latest is Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Anxiety, which is a national bestseller. Dr. Wray is also the director of CIRCLE (Community-minded Interventions for Resilience, Climate Leadership, and Emotional wellbeing) at Stanford Psychiatry, a research and action initiative in the Stanford School of Medicine. Her first book, the Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction was named a best book of 2017 by the New Yorker. She most recently is a top award winner of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, which was bestowed upon her by the National Academies in partnership with Schmidt Futures.
Season 2, Ep. 16
A necessary and beautiful episode on the emotional terrain of climate grief, loss, sadness, anxiety, and all the ways we can cope either maladaptively or adaptively to this challenging moment in time.
This is an intimate conversation that makes the case for allowing ourselves to ‘feel it all’. Because from the depth of feeling comes the power of action, hope, resilience and community.
Emotional and Psychological Resilience to Current Looming Crises
Leslie Davenport is a psychotherapist who specializes in interdisciplinary dialogues that advance creative and effective solutions to climate change. She’s a founding member of the Institute for Health and Healing, one of the U.S.’s first and largest hospital-based integrative medicine programs, and her extensive clinical and teaching experience have fed into her climate psychology model. She’s the author of a number of books, including Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change.
Exploring psychological responses to the climate crisis to strengthen relationships and resilience for a just future through:
Climate instability is one of the most urgent public health threats of the 21st century. The Climate Psychiatry Alliance creates and promotes resources to educate the public and other mental health professionals about the mental health impacts of climate change, and advocates as a group to mitigate these effects.
Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
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The state of the world may be difficult to process at the moment, so The Frontline talks to an Indigenous psychologist who is no stranger to working with grief.
Newsletter: Gen Dread, by Climate and Mental Health Researcher Britt Wray featuring essays, interviews and news relating to eco anxiety.
October 11, 2023
Impacts of climate change threaten children’s mental health starting before birth
WASHINGTON — Climate change poses a particular threat to children and youth, starting before birth and potentially derailing the normal development of physiological systems, cognitive abilities and emotional skills in ways that are sometimes irreversible, according to a report released by the American Psychological Association and ecoAmerica.
The Journal of Climate Change and Health
Hope, Health, and the Climate Crisis
February, 2022
Hope has been viewed since ancient times as a bedrock of human thriving, and contemporary evidence suggests that hope is a determinant of health. However, the climate crisis, in addition to its many direct and indirect threats to human health, erodes hope in many people. This article describes medical aspects of hope and hopelessness, including clinical definitions, measurement methods, and treatments. It then touches on literary and philosophical perspectives on hope, from both ancient and modern sources, emphasizing the centrality of hope to human thriving. Finally, it applies these clinical and cultural perspectives to the climate crisis, arguing that health professionals should propel hope in themselves, their patients, and the broader society, and drawing on clinical insights to propose concrete ways of doing so.
Mental Health & Climate Change: Caterpillars, Climate Grief, and a New Report
Mental Health & Climate Change” is a monthly column by Elizabeth Bechard, Moms Clean Air Force Senior Policy Analyst, in which she explores how families are coping with our warming world.
In this episode of the “Great Unraveling?” series, Leslie Davenport joins Laurie Laybourn-Langton to explore the emotional and psychological impacts of disruption and crisis for individuals and across societies, and what people and communities can do in the face of crisis to build resilience.
Talking about climate emotions is a powerful political act.
It also makes you feel better.
Millions of Americans are alarmed by the Climate Emergency. But most of us don’t talk about it! We keep our grief, fear, and rage to ourselves. This spiral of silence keeps us lonely and powerless.
Let's break the silence.
Share your climate terror, grief, and rage with people who understand. Join a Climate Emotions Conversation - a small group sharing & listening session about the climate emergency.
10 Steps to Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate
A peer-to-peer support space for people overwhelmed by collective injustices and eco-anxiety/climate grief/eco-distress
Climate-Aware Therapist Directory
Who we are: Climate-aware therapists are professionally-trained psychotherapists who recognize that the climate crisis is both a global threat to all life on Earth and a deeply personal threat to the mental and physical well-being—the sense of safety, meaning, and purpose—of each individual, family, and community on the planet.
Our shared goal: To use our unique psychotherapeutic skills to meet the multiple, mounting mental health crises arising out of the increasing instability of our planetary system.
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We are psychologists and psychotherapists based in Germany who contribute their psychological and therapeutic expertise to meet the challenges posed by the climate crisis and to facilitate a sustainable future. |
This includes creating awareness of the climate crisis, facilitating emotional coping strategies andconstructive action when dealing with the climate crisis, and supporting climate activists (individuals and groups). |
Climate Mental Health Networks mission is to provide access to education, tools, programs, and support designed to help individuals and communities recognize the signs and manage the emotional impacts of climate change.
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“Mental health is not about feeling good or calm or relaxed. . . . It’s about having feelings that fit the circumstances you’re in and then managing those feelings well, even if those feelings are negative or unpleasant.”
Lisa Damour
