Masters Thesis, Smith College School for Social Work (Seaman, 2016): The scientific community has reached near consensus that climate change (also known as anthropogenic global warming) poses a significant and potentially dire threat to the ecosystems upon which we, as humans and as a society, rest. While climate change is most often discussed in terms of its effect on the natural environment, its psychological impacts are also expected to be immense and varied and include indirect distress related to the threat that climate change poses. This thesis explores how mental health clinicians receive and respond to indirect psychological impacts of climate change in the therapeutic setting.
Climate change on the therapist's couch
2016
Masters Thesis, Smith College School for Social Work (Seaman, 2016): The scientific community has reached near consensus that climate change (also known as anthropogenic global warming) poses a significant and potentially dire threat to the ecosystems upon which we, as humans and as a society, rest. While climate change is most often discussed in terms of its effect on the natural environment, its psychological impacts are also expected to be immense and varied and include indirect distress related to the threat that climate change poses. This thesis explores how mental health clinicians receive and respond to indirect psychological impacts of climate change in the therapeutic setting.
Seaman, E.
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