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Is there a therapy for climate-change anxiety?Steffi Bednarek calls for a collective response to a global ecological disaster

Climate change can feel overwhelming. As we head up to Earth Day, some young people tell us how climate change makes them feel - and explore the best way to talk about it. Brief BBC animation featuring children's own perspectives on climate change, stemming from CPA member Caroline Hickman's research, offering guidance for having conversations with children.

A wildlife photographer describes discovering barn owls in a field behind his house, and the patience involved in capturing a single photograph over 20 nights of watching.

This chapter offers a single clinical case study of what is described as 'climate mania', drawing on Lacanian theory to detail how climate change was central to the client's manic-depressive experience. It discusses how biomedical approaches to manic responses to climate threats can foreclose a person's sense of subjectivity in relation to the crisis, and indicates the need for further research into the intersections between climate change and extreme states such as mania and psychosis.

Extractive industries have a deleterious impact on social ecologies. Mining is one of South Africa's main industries, and communities' resistance takes place in these extractive zones. This qualitative case study aims to explore and describe mine-affected community members' psychological reactions and community responses to land and environmental injustices in the mining community of Rustenburg, South Africa. D

A short reflection on a painting made during a heatwave: 'Climate anxiety was making me feel like I was being swallowed by tar. This is the only way I know how to climb out.'

Solastalgia is the emotional response elicited by ecological degradation, originating from the concepts of solace, desolation, and pain. Climate change has profound societal and health impacts especially for marginalised communities who face food shortages, poverty and forced displacement. Indigenous peoples have deep relational ancestral connections with the land that are beyond connection to place, and experience unique intensified forms of distress resulting from environmental degradation. For Indigenous peoples, connections with land are disrupted through extractive politics such as colonisation and now climate emergency, legacies that leave deleterious effects on wellbeing. In collective Indigenous cultures, distress is embedded within wider contexts of community, history, and the earth itself. This paper critically reviews solastalgia from Māori and care ethics perspectives to demonstrate the power of adding relational, contextual, and embodied elements to the concept. This paper argues for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge in the conceptualisation of climate-related distress. Māori notions of voice and place inform research approaches that are in solidarity with Indigenous voice to examine the impacts of climate degradation.

This study examines the relationships between generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling - a community-based free-item sharing pro-environmental behaviour - along with the role of societal factors. Drawing on an online survey of 16,773 participants across 34 countries, the study finds that generalized trust and, unexpectedly, climate change conspiracy beliefs are both positively associated with freecycling participation.

Linda Aspey explores why the therapyprofessions are still so silent on climate change