Climate “Psychopathology”

Thompson, Harriet E.

doi:10.1027/1016-9040/a000433

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“…Ongoing research continues to make a strong case for the connection between climate change and mental health (H. E. Thompson, 2021;R. Thompson et al, 2023).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health service psychology trainees’ use of ecotherapeutic interventions with clients: The roles of environmental justice beliefs and training experiences.

Vera,

Hartranft-Mulcahy,

Graham

2024

Training and Education in Professional Psychology

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The connections between climate change, the environment, and mental health have been well documented by psychological research. However, the extent to which health service psychologists who work in clinical settings address these issues with clients is not well understood. Health service psychology trainees participated in an exploratory investigation of the predictors of ecotherapeutic intervention use in their clinical work. The significant predictors were trainees' environmental justice beliefs and the degree to which environmentalism issues were discussed in their training programs and supervision. However, social justice attitudes, along with biospheric values and environmental identity, were significant predictors of environmental justice beliefs. Biospheric values and environmental identity were also significant predictors of personal conservation behaviors, but personal behaviors did not predict professional attention to environmental issues. Implications for training are discussed. Public Significance StatementHealth service psychology trainees' use of interventions that focus on environmental issues is predicted by their belief in environmental justice principles and their exposure to these issues in their training programs. Personal conservation behaviors (e.g., recycling, energy reduction) did not predict their inclusion of these issues in their clinical work.

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“…Ongoing research continues to make a strong case for the connection between climate change and mental health (H. E. Thompson, 2021;R. Thompson et al, 2023).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health service psychology trainees’ use of ecotherapeutic interventions with clients: The roles of environmental justice beliefs and training experiences.

Vera,

Hartranft-Mulcahy,

Graham

2024

Training and Education in Professional Psychology

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“…Anxiety is increasingly linked to environmental issues, as evident in phrases such as eco-anxiety, climate anxiety, and others [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]130]. As such, it is important that the academic discussions cover disabled people under these terms with a focus on environmentbased social stressors that might add to the environment-based anxiety.…”

Section: Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Anxiety is increasingly linked in academic and non-academic discussions to natural environmental issues, as evident in phrases such as eco-anxiety and climate anxiety [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]. It is important that disabled people are covered under these terms, as disabled people disproportionally experience nature-based social stressors [64,65], which could lead to anxiety.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Academic Coverage of Social Stressors Experienced by Disabled People: A Scoping Review

Wolbring,

Escobedo

2023

Societies

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Social stress can be caused by many factors. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) highlights many social stressors disabled people experience in their daily lives. How social stressors experienced by disabled people are discussed in the academic literature and what data are generated influence social-stressor related policies, education, and research. Therefore, the aim of our study was to better understand the academic coverage of social stressors experienced by disabled people. We performed a scoping review study of academic abstracts employing SCOPUS, the 70 databases of EBSCO-HOST and Web of Science, and a directed qualitative content analysis to achieve our aim. Using many different search strategies, we found few to no abstracts covering social stressors experienced by disabled people. Of the 1809 abstracts obtained using various stress-related phrases and disability terms, we found a bias towards covering disabled people as stressors for others. Seventeen abstracts mentioned social stressors experienced by disabled people. Fourteen abstracts flagged “disability” as the stressor. No abstract contained stress phrases specific to social stressors disabled people experience, such as “disablism stress*” or “ableism stress*”. Of the abstracts containing equity, diversity, and inclusion phrases and policy frameworks, only one was relevant, and none of the abstracts covering emergency and disaster discussions, stress-identifying technologies, or science and technology governance were relevant. Anxiety is one consequence of social stressors. We found no abstract that contained anxiety phrases that are specific to social stressors disabled people experience, such as “ableism anxiety”, “disablism anxiety” or “disability anxiety”. Within the 1809 abstract, only one stated that a social stressor is a cause of anxiety. Finally, of the abstracts that contained anxiety phrases linked to a changing natural environment, such as “climate anxiety”, none were relevant. Our study found many gaps in the academic literature that should be fixed and with that highlights many opportunities.

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“…The lack of immediate and effective government action on climate change has caused many people, especially youth, to feel hopeless and depressed (Thompson, 2021), which does not encourage individual climate action.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How do we reinforce climate action?

Zhao¹,

RADKE

Chen³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Humanity has a shrinking window to act on climate change, yet climate action is severely lacking. We argue that it is because interventions to promote climate action have largely neglected the basic principles of behavior change from an operant conditioning perspective. In this paper, we propose a generative operant conditioning framework that uses positive and negative reinforcement to encourage low-emission behaviors and positive and negative punishment to discourage high-emission behaviors in domains of travel, food, waste, housing, and civic behaviors. This framework also offers a parsimonious account to explain positive and negative spillovers. This framework provides an effective recipe to design individual-level and system-level interventions to generate and sustain high-impact climate action across multiple domains.

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Climate “Psychopathology”

Cited by 12 publications

References 70 publications

Health service psychology trainees’ use of ecotherapeutic interventions with clients: The roles of environmental justice beliefs and training experiences.

Health service psychology trainees’ use of ecotherapeutic interventions with clients: The roles of environmental justice beliefs and training experiences.

Academic Coverage of Social Stressors Experienced by Disabled People: A Scoping Review

How do we reinforce climate action?

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