Psychological resilience for climate change transformation: relational, differentiated and situated perspectives

Adams, Helen; Blackburn, Sophie; Mantovani, Nadia

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2021.06.011

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“…Although there is limited research data on coping with disaster-related stress, many researchers generally point to the importance of positive coping strategies (e.g., positive religious coping, positive distraction, problem-solving, adjustment and acceptance) and resilience (Cutter et al, 2008;Shing et al, 2016). While resilience is a concept used in a variety of disciplines and research fields (e.g., child development, criminology, biology, ecology, and social work), it has a particularly strong impact in psychology and refers to an individual's ability to maintain normal psychological and emotional functioning during and after traumatic events (Adams et al, 2021;Bourbeau, 2018;Nath & Pradhan, 2012). Undoubtedly, many factors (such as spirituality, education level, economic resources, social support, and positive personality traits) contribute to psychological resilience.…”

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“The World is Changing… I Can Feel it in the Water and Soil. I Can Smell It”: Addressing the role of psychological flexibility on the planet of disasters

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2022

Perspect Psychiatric Care

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Climate change has already had observable effects on the world.The loss of biodiversity is now more drastic, trees are blooming earlier, the glaciers are melting, and the oceans have become more acidic (NASA, 2021). Climate change has induced extreme weather events, rising temperatures, floods, droughts, air pollution, and forest fires (these hazards are becoming a part of daily life in unprecedented numbers and scale) (Goshua et al., 2021;NASA, 2021). Although these hazards from climate change do not constitute a disaster in themselves, its can become a disaster if they cause severe disruption to the functioning of a community or a society it affects, and if its exceed the ability to cope using their own methods, involve widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts (Grant et al., 2015). In this article, the term disaster is used to refer to both sudden and slow-onset disasters caused by climate change. When physical hazards from climate change become a disaster, they bring with them serious changes that lead to widespread negative human, material, or environmental impacts that require urgent action to meet critical human needs. Climate-related disasters have health dimensions as well as economic and environmental dimensions (Grant et al., 2015;IPCC, 2012). Estimates suggest that between 2030 and 2050, climate change will cause about 250,000 additional deaths per year due to heat stress, malaria, diarrhea, and malnutrition (World Health Organization, 2021). Of course, the way that climate change-induced disasters affect people cannot be conveyed through death rates alone. Injury, homelessness, and displacement due to disasters all have a significant impact on individuals. People with low and middle-income status and disenfranchised individuals are more severely affected by climate change due to the conflicts and mass migration that stem from hostile environmental conditions (Ritchie & Roser, 2021). Moreover, vulnerability to climate change-induced disasters is not just a matter of income. It typically includes intersecting dimensions of inequality such as gender, age, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality (Azong & Kelso, 2021; Godfrey, 2012). Climate change also seems to be LETTER TO THE EDITOR | 3115

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