Wisdom for Caregivers

Minnesota Reformer shared Minnesota Mental Health Professionals Say Climate Concerns Driving Patients to Depression by Christopher Ingraham, January 04, 2024.

Can your congregation become a place for young people to process complex emotions and develop resilience and hope by participating - with adults who are passionate about climate care - in taking action to mitigate damage and restore health to all?

Is climate grief something new?

Conceptualizing the losses — and anticipated losses — associated with climate change is a relatively new proposition.

By Summer Allen // February 19, 2020

How to Help Teens Overcome Anxiety About Climate Change

Climate change is a mental health issue, not just an environmental one. Compassion practices may help adolescents turn anxiety into action.

BY TYRALYNN FRAZIER | June 26, 2023

November 24, 2022

How to help your child cope with eco-anxiety

Parents and caregivers have an active role to play in helping children and young people cope with feelings of anxiety. It starts with being aware of the signs.

How to support a teenager who experiences climate anxiety

Concern about climate change has been increasing in recent years, and young people in particular are experiencing high rates of climate anxiety.

Students at the School Strike 4 Climate in Sydney. Source: ReachOut

Newsletter: Gen Dread, by Climate and Mental Health Researcher Britt Wray featuring essays, interviews and news relating to eco anxiety.

Climate Anxiety

The existential threat posed by climate change is deeply troubling to many young people

Spring 2023

How Climate Change Anxiety Affects Young Adults

Young adults will inherit a world that is deeply impacted by climate change. Thus, a large portion of this generation feels both hopeless and helpless about the future of the planet. As a result, young adults often experience what’s known as climate change anxiety, climate anxiety, or eco-anxiety.

Parents & Caregivers Resources

Including: Webinar: How to Talk to Gen Zers about Climate Emotions

and downloadable PDFs:

How to Talk to Young People about Climate Emotions // en Español
Climate Just-the-Facts Talk with Middle and High School Students // en Español
Engaging Gen Zers in the Climate Crisis: Listen, Encourage Amplify, Respect, Nurture
The Climate Emotions Wheel & Activity Sheet (for kids and adults)

Climate-Aware Therapists

Climate-Aware Therapist Directory

What is a climate-aware therapist?

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.

PSYCHOLOGISTS/PSYCHOTHERAPISTS 4 FUTURE

“Climate change is a psychological crisis,

whatever else it is.”

– Poulsen, 2018 –

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).

Ecumenical Gleanings

Youth and Young Adults Equally Encouraged and Challenged by Climate Summit

July 19, 2023

The event’s keynote speaker, Talitha Amadea Aho, author of “In Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis,” and a chaplain at a children’s hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, addressed the effects that the climate crisis has on young people along with the realities that our globe is currently facing.

Climate Hope