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This narrative review synthesises existing research on the relationship between negative emotions related to climate change and other environmental problems, and mental wellbeing, across different regions and cultural contexts. The authors examine anxiety, worry and grief as distinct but related phenomena, arguing that these emotional responses are, in most cases, normal and potentially constructive rather than pathological, particularly where worry motivates engagement and action rather than avoidance. They review evidence on how these emotions are distributed across populations, noting particular vulnerability among young people, those with direct experience of environmental loss, and communities with close cultural or livelihood ties to land and place. The review also considers methodological challenges in measuring climate emotions, including how differently worded survey questions can shape reported findings, and calls for more place-based and culturally relevant approaches to understanding and supporting people experiencing climate distress, rather than treating these responses as uniform across contexts.

This chapter revisits professional ethics for therapists in light of the climate and ecological crisis, considering how existing ethical frameworks may need to be reconsidered or extended to address practitioners' responsibilities in a time of climate breakdown.

This doctoral thesis is a phenomenological study convening a group of leaders from UK organisations that engage the public on climate change (climate change communication) for seven meetings over eleven months, exploring the systems-psychodynamic experience of leadership in this sector. The 'ticking clock thing' of the title originates in a participant's description of the emotional experience of working in climate communication: a persistent sense of urgency and time pressure that shapes organisational dynamics, leadership behaviour and the pace of work. The thesis explores how this pressure is experienced, defended against and organisationally managed, contributing to limited existing scholarship on organisational dynamics in organisations whose task includes addressing the climate crisis.

This chapter explores the experience of people who work on climate change - scientists, communicators, campaigners and sustainability professionals - and the organisational dynamics that may affect them. It examines how the psychological impact of the climate crisis shapes organisational culture and working experience, and how climate-aware therapeutic practitioners working as organisational consultants and coaches can help climate workers make sense of their experience and navigate the challenges.

From Mortality 30(2), 355-376 (Open Access): Despite death and bereavement studies being dominated by scholars and empirical material from Europe and North America, death and bereavement studies have often assumed the universality of their knowledge claims. This article explores what innovative insights can be gained about death and its aftermath from contemporary research in African contexts - South Sudan, Senegal, and Uganda - with diverse histories of colonialism and contemporary experiences of marginalisation, as well as activism against political, economic and epistemic injustices. The authors illustrate how the process of decolonising death and knowledge about death has long, historical roots that can be traced back to acts of resistance during the colonial period, and question dominant post/neo-colonial development discourses that focus solely on the material impact of death as a 'household shock'.