Clinical geography: A proposal to embrace space, place and wellbeing through person-centered practice

Place type or place function: What matters for place attachment?

“…I suggest that third places may consist of dynamic social milieus, rather than physical structures per se, that can emerge at any type of physical place when individuals perceive the primary function of that place as being a social one. This study therefore extends on current literature by examining the relative importance of place type, compared to the meaning of a place in a person's life, for place attachment at an extended range of neighborhood places than have been previously studied and that are relevant in the daily lives of individuals across population groups and locations (Finlay & Rowles, 2021).…”

Climate anxiety as posthuman knowledge

“…What, though, are the implications of posthumanist thinking for a wider geography of mental health and well-being as this might relate to climate anxiety? Here, we note developments in cognate disciplines to recontextualise mental health and clinical practice in response to posthumanist understandings prompted by the climate crisis (see Adams, 2020, on anthropocene psychology, and Boulet and Hawkins, 2021, on recontextualising social work; and also Finlay and Rowles, 2021). Common to these efforts is the knowledge that humans are entangled in a more-than-human world, constantly bumping up alongside nonhumans of all shapes, sizes and effectivities, and so damage to that world cannot but elicit psychological, emotional, and psychological consequences for humans (as explicitly discussed above with reference to 'earth emotions').…”

“…This is in stark contrast to the prevailing 'biopsychosocial' model of health/illness that stops short of this third relation, typically defining the social only in 'interpersonal' (human) terms (Wade and Halligan, 2017), as we have argued is also true of conventional wellbeing studies. An equivalent critical stance on the neglect of relations with and into a wider world (of environments, of nature) has of course already been detected in humanistic geography, including at the heart of Finlay and Rowles's (2021) proposed reorientating of 'the clinical'. By explicitly acknowledging the importance of this third relation, the human in posthumanism is diminished only to the extent that it is set on an equal footing with all other things.…”

Restructuring Theoretical Framework of Urban Sustainability From the Health Dimension

“…Literature review. The research on the relationship between health and environment is mainly carried out from the perspectives of medical geography [3][4][5], public health [6] and urban planning and management [7; 8], which provides a theoretical basis for the construction of the relationship between health and sustainability. Medical geography research on the relationship between health and environment is mainly focused on the field of disease ecology and its geographical distribution [3; 4], while the research on the relationship between socio-economic factors and health is not paid enough attention, so it is urgent to cooperate with economics, environmental science, sociology and other interdisciplinary [5].…”

“…The research on the relationship between health and environment is mainly carried out from the perspectives of medical geography [3][4][5], public health [6] and urban planning and management [7; 8], which provides a theoretical basis for the construction of the relationship between health and sustainability. Medical geography research on the relationship between health and environment is mainly focused on the field of disease ecology and its geographical distribution [3; 4], while the research on the relationship between socio-economic factors and health is not paid enough attention, so it is urgent to cooperate with economics, environmental science, sociology and other interdisciplinary [5]. Public health research involves all health-related contents with the aim of achieving health promotion and preventing disease transmission at the individual and group levels, focusing on disease control, control of environmental pollution's impact on human health, health policy, health planning, health management and supervision, health economics and engineering, etc.…”