Research and resources, shaped by those doing the work

As the impacts from anthropogenic climate change are increasing globally, peopleare experiencing dramatic shifts in weather, temperature, wildlife and vegetation patterns,and water and food quality and availability. These changes impact human health and wellbeing, and resultantly, climate change has been identified as the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century. Recently, research is beginning to indicate that changes in climate, and the subsequent disruption to the social, economic, and environmental determinants of health, may cause increased incidences and prevalence of mental health issues, emotional responses, and large-scale sociopsychological changes. Through a multi-year, community-led, exploratory case study conducted in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada, this research qualitatively explores the impacts of climate change on mental health and well-being in an Inuit context.

Published by WWF-UK, this book argues that mainstream approaches to environmental campaigning - focused on policy change or individual behaviour change - largely ignore the role of human identity in shaping responses to environmental challenges. Crompton and Kasser argue that many current environmental campaigns inadvertently reinforce the very aspects of identity (materialism, extrinsic values, threat-driven defensiveness) that drive unsustainable behaviour in the first place, drawing on values theory - including Schwartz's circumplex model of values - and self-determination theory to make this case. The book proposes that lasting engagement with environmental challenges requires deliberately activating more helpful, intrinsic aspects of identity rather than relying on fear, guilt or narrow self-interest, and closes by identifying common ground between environmental campaigning and other social justice movements that share this identity-based analysis.

From the perspective of a psychotherapist deeply affected by the climate crisis, this chapter questions why patients rarely directly verbalise concerns about climate change in sessions. Drawing on Henry Rey's concept of dying inner objects that people wait for help to repair, and on the work of Sally Weintrobe and George Marshall, the chapter suggests that, despite overt climate silence, a process of mourning damaged inner objects can facilitate facing the greatest threat to humanity we have known.

Climate change education ‘helps people understand and address the impacts of the climate crisis, empowering them with the knowledge, values and attitudes needed to act as agents of change’

The items on this list address the practice of psychotherapy and counselling in relation to the climate and ecological crisis - clinical approaches, therapist training, professional responsibility, and therapists' experiences. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

Support teachers. Face what's coming. Act together. Campaign hosted by the Climate Majority Project, supported by CPA members, building a coalition of climate scientists, mental health professionals, youth leaders and educators to support emotionally attuned, whole-school climate education.

ABSTRACT: The objective is to analyze how climate change impacts affect rural poverty dimensions of residents of communities in the backlands of the Northeast and South of Brazil. This study has a qualitative design. Seven focus groups were conducted with 79 participants from impoverished rural communities in the Northeast and South of Brazil. The research participants simultaneously experience various levels of deprivation in the form of multiple shortcomings, such as food deprivation, improper housing and the lack of leisure areas. Also, a series of deficiencies linked to climate change is identified, such as the loss of production and the feeling of insecurity for the future.

The Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) has developed an intimate interweaving of the three strands of the political, the psychology of unconscious process and the science of climate change to understand our culture’s responsibility for and capacity to respond to planetary catastrophe. In this article I want to re-imagine what might prevent us sinking into a helpless despair as our world falls apart.

Summary: This paper reviews existing evidence on the health and wellbeing impacts of climate change in South Africa, covering a wide range of direct and indirect pathways, including heat-related illness, changing patterns of infectious disease, food and water insecurity, and the mental health consequences of drought, flooding and displacement. The authors highlight South Africa's particular vulnerability given existing socioeconomic inequality, informal settlement housing conditions, and reliance on rain-fed agriculture, arguing that climate change is likely to exacerbate existing health disparities rooted in the country's history. The potential impacts of climate change on mental health are considered as part of this broader review.