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Climate psychology includes many subfields and focuses including: the effects of climate change on mental health, the psychological impact of climate change, the psychological explanation of climate inaction, and climate change denial. Climate psychology is a sub-discipline of environmental psychology.
The psychological effects of climate change may be investigated within the field of climate psychology or picked up in the course of treatment of mental health disorders. Non-clinical approaches, campaigning options, internet-based support forums, and self-help books may be adopted by those not overwhelmed by climate anxiety.
The psychology of climate change denial is the study of why people deny climate change, despite the scientific consensus on climate change.
An additional aspect to consider is the detrimental impact climate change can have on green or blue natural spaces, which have been proven to have beneficial impact on mental health. [5] [6] Impacts of anthropogenic climate change, such as freshwater pollution or deforestation, degrade these landscapes and reduce public access to them. [7]
ST. PETERSBURG — Anna Lynn Heine has thought about dropping out of Eckerd College more times than she cares to admit. Or she’ll work on an essay and wonder what is even the point. Anxiety ...
Eco-anxiety can be fueled in part by climate change helplessness, [41] a form of learned helplessness applied to climate change fears. Because climate change is such an enormous issue with such dire consequences, an individual's actions may seem to make no difference in combatting the bigger issue.
Leslie Davenport (born Leslie Dunn) is an American writer, teacher, psychotherapist, and consultant in the mental health specialization of climate psychology. [1] [2] [3] Also, she is the program and faculty lead for the Climate Psychology Certificate program at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Obviously, I think a lot of the other issues that came up, climate change, the energy transition, that was a huge theme and it's going to be one, of coursem that will continue to be a theme in 2025.