This qualitative study explores how therapists in Australia experience climate change personally and professionally, and how they navigate the dialectic between the two. Findings suggest that although the mental health impacts of global warming are increasingly documented, these issues remain inadequately addressed within psychotherapeutic training and practice, revealing a gap between the growing evidence base on climate-related psychological distress and the profession's readiness to respond. The study calls for further research into how individual therapists can integrate their own climate responses with clinical work, and for professional bodies to provide leadership, training and support.
Therapists' experience of climate change
2022
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This qualitative study explores how therapists in Australia experience climate change personally and professionally, and how they navigate the dialectic between the two. Findings suggest that although the mental health impacts of global warming are increasingly documented, these issues remain inadequately addressed within psychotherapeutic training and practice, revealing a gap between the growing evidence base on climate-related psychological distress and the profession's readiness to respond. The study calls for further research into how individual therapists can integrate their own climate responses with clinical work, and for professional bodies to provide leadership, training and support.
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