Climate Distress through the Lens of the Power Threat Meaning Framework

Gareth Morgan

I'm one of CPA's youth coordinators. I'm a clinical psychologist with over 20 years' experience working in the NHS and clinical psychology training programmes. I work with the other youth coordinators and other members to nurture an intergenerational culture within CPA, and to develop our offerings for young people and the adults who support them. I am keen to support understandings of of our responses to climate breakdown in ways that support connections with power and wider contexts, including adultism and intergenerational injustice. I am a parent to two wonderful children, and I try and support local actions and community projects when I have the time (doesn't seem to be often!). I work three days a week on the Leicester Clinical Psychology training programme. Listening to music is one of my main coping strategies for my own climate feelings, and I'm looking forward to when I can tell my children to turn their music down, rather than the other way around.