Research and resources, shaped by those doing the work

In this chapter, the different elements of the Power Threat Meaning Framework are described as they might relate to people distressed about climate breakdown within the UK. Example questions are offered that therapists might use to support narrative development; the author concludes with thoughts regarding therapeutic utility.

This study examines associations between air temperature variables and mental health-related community clinic visits across Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada, finding that longer periods of warm temperatures significantly increased mental health clinic visits. Temperature-mental health associations aligned with community participation in land-based activities, and the strength of associations varied by place - suggesting that geography and local context modify how climate change affects mental health. The authors argue that place-based approaches are essential to health policy, planning, adaptation and research responding to climate change in the Circumpolar North.

This systematic scoping review examines the global literature on how Indigenous Peoples experience climate-sensitive mental health impacts, and how these experiences vary across socio-cultural contexts, geographic locations and patterns of climate change. Despite Indigenous Peoples being among those most acutely affected by climate change, the authors find that this population has been comparatively understudied in existing mental health and climate change research. The review synthesises empirical studies published since 2007, examining how meteorological, seasonal and climatic changes intersect with Indigenous mental health and wellbeing across different global regions. The authors argue that findings from this body of work can support Indigenous-led initiatives and decision-making processes aimed at enhancing mental wellness in the context of a changing climate, and call for research and policy responses that centre Indigenous knowledge systems and self-determination rather than externally imposed frameworks.

ABSTRACT: Innovative decolonising work always entails going beyond diversity, but has only recently been raised in relation to 'bereavement studies'. This paper explores what it may entail to 'decolonise' death and its continuing aftermath in the lives of the living. In the UK, documented experiences of racialised inequalities and discrimination have clearly evidenced the pervasiveness of institutional racism across many key areas of life, and this paper considers what decolonising perspectives can offer to the understanding of bereavement support and services within this context.

A reflection on a difficult spring of 2020 - a parent's cancer diagnosis, COVID lockdown, and the Black Lives Matter movement's impact on Black communities - as context for the author's path into activism.