An Integrationist, Meteorologist-oriented Perspective on Trauma and Mental Health Coping

Abstract

Meteorologists are faced with a multitude of stressors in the course of their weather prediction work. There is widespread anecdotal evidence to suggest that these factors are associated with various traumatic stress outcomes among forecasters. Thus, this paper takes an integrationist perspective in discussing and theorizing about emotional processing and the occurrence of job-related traumas in the meteorological workplace. We utilize process-experiential views on emotion for our discussion of emotional processing and merge Adlerian Individual Psychology principles with those of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to provide insight into mental health coping strategies which might be helpful to meteorologists.