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Community as social ties
Published in S. Alexander Haslam, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Society, 2020
Carolyn Kagan, Mark Burton, Paul Duckett, Rebecca Lawthom, Asiya Siddiquee
Look at the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA). Central to the vision behind CPA is that they are seeking to place human science alongside natural science in the cause of ecologically informed living, through understanding and facing difficult truths. Members set out to understand the unconscious feelings and attitudes preventing human action on climate change. Try exploring the site and discuss the extent to which the approach taken by the Climate Psychology Alliance is, or is not, community psychological. What makes it so? www.climatepsychologyalliance.org
The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing: A Narrative Review of Current Evidence, and its Implications
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2022
Emma L. Lawrance, Rhiannon Thompson, Jessica Newberry Le Vay, Lisa Page, Neil Jennings
As our understanding of the interconnections between climate change and mental health and emotional wellbeing grows, a crucial need has been identified for sophisticated and cross-disciplinary 'systems' thinking (27), along with inclusion and synthesis of relevant literature from diverse disciplines in understanding the breadth and depth of this multifaceted topic. This narrative review adds to existing literature reviews on the topic of climate change and mental health (6,32–34), firstly by going beyond literature that explicitly focuses on climate change, for example by searching for relevant literature on experiences of fires and floods (which are not always explicitly linked to climate change), and secondly by including both academic and grey literature. This paper also accounts for the huge expansion of climate psychology literature in recent years, particularly mental health impacts arising from witnessing or being aware of climate change, and the relationships with coping, adapting, agency and action. Preparing communities for current and future climate threats requires a sufficient understanding of the psychological barriers and enablers of climate action, and what helps people to live with and through the crisis while strengthening local capacities to survive and thrive in a changing climate (psychological adaptation and emotional resilience).