Climate Psychology
Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown
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Arguing that it is vital for ecological concerns to enter the therapy room, this book calls for change from regulatory bodies, training institutes, and individual practitioners.
Holding the Hope: Reviving psychological and spiritual agency in the face of climate change
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Global heating, catastrophic climate change and the growing reality of ecosystem damage and accelerated species extinction hang over us all. For the counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches and their supervisors who make up the talking therapy professions, these topics are increasingly coming up in their work.
Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities
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Using extensive research, interviews with program leaders, and examples, Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas is a step-by-step guide for organizing community-based, culturally tailored, population-level mental wellness and resilience-building initiatives to prevent and heal individual and collective climate traumas.
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Ecological and Climate-Conscious Coaching: A Companion Guide to Evolving Coaching Practice
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This book takes you on a seven-day journey with your guides: 60 coaches and thought-leaders from around the world. Through storytelling, poetry and other creative approaches, readers can follow this programme alone or with others and take a practical and empowering look at the impact of the climate emergency on their practice and how they might respond.
Climate Change & Youth: Turning Grief and Anxiety into Activism
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Climate Change and Youth is a pioneering book that opens the door to understanding the profound impact climate change has on the mental health of today’s young people.
Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety: Sustainable Action for Your Mental Health and the Planet
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This book shows that the solution to both climate anxiety and the climate crisis is the same – action that is sustainable for you and for the planet – and empowers you to take steps towards this.
Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death
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Climate Psychology offers ways to work with the unthinkable and emotionally unendurable current predicament of humanity. The style and writing interweave passion and reflection, animation and containment, radical hope and tragedy to reflect the dilemmas of our collective crisis. The authors model a relational approach in their styles of writing and in the book’s structure. Four chapters, each with a strikingly original voice and insight, form the core of the book, held either end by two jointly written chapters.
Wild Therapy: Rewilding our inner and outer worlds
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This second edition builds on the first to suggest what a wild civilisation might be like, and how psychotherapy could help create it.
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare
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Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture – for example in the writings of Ayn Rand – and also in ourselves.
Eco-Art Therapy in Practice
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Eco-Art Therapy in Practice is uplifting, optimistic, and empowering while outlining cost-effective, time efficient, and research-based steps on how to use nature in session to enhance client engagement and outcomes.
Towards an Ecopsychotherapy
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Towards an Ecopsychotherapy offers diverse stories, from the therapy room to therapy in the forest, about the healing process of reconnection with the more-than-human world as well as with our wild animal selves. It provides an insight into ecopsychotherapy in practice by outlining its history, key themes, ideas, and controversies.
Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining Our World and Ourselves
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With its unique focus on the psychological experience of facing into the climate crisis, this warm and supportive book offers companionship and sustenance for anyone who wants to be alive to our natural world and to the existential challenges of today. It is an essential resource for counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers and other helping professionals, as well as climate campaigners, policy makers, educators, scientists and researchers.
Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster
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This book investigates the psycho-social phenomenon which is society’s failure to respond to climate change. It analyses the non-rational dimensions of our collective paralysis in the face of worsening climate change and environmental destruction, exploring the emotional, ethical, social, organizational and cultural dynamics to blame for this global lack of action.
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
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From forest paths in Korea to islands in Finland to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science at the confluence of environment, mood, health and creativity. Delving into new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships.
Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy: Integrating the Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy
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Responding to the increased interest in the integration of expressive arts and ecotherapy, this book presents a nature based approach to expressive arts work.
Bodywise: weaving somatic psychotherapy, ecodharma and the Buddha in everyday life
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Kamalamani explores client work in embodied and relational ways, drawing upon her practice of Buddhism.
Ecotherapy in Practice: A Buddhist Model
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Ecotherapy in Practice reflects the growing interest and research in this field. Drawing on a diversity of experience from the counselling and psychotherapy professions, but also from practitioners in community work, mental health and education, this book explores the exciting and innovative possibilities involved in practising outdoors.
Nature and Therapy: Understanding counselling and psychotherapy in outdoor spaces
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This book will be of use to counsellors, psychotherapists, arts therapists, psychologists and health professionals who are interested in taking their therapeutic work into natural environments and outdoor spaces.
With Nature in Mind: The Ecotherapy Manual for Mental Health Professionals
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This book explains how a deeper connection to nature can improve quality of life, by combining the therapeutic power of mindfulness and being out in the natural world.
The Healing Forest in Post-Crisis Work with Children: A Nature Therapy and Expressive Arts Program for Groups
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The original, evidence-based approach described in this book will be of interest to all those working therapeutically or creatively with children who have experienced stress or trauma, including arts therapists, teachers, psychologists and counsellors.
Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis
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Vital signs are, of course, the basic physiological measures of functioning which health practitioners use to assess the gravity of a patient’s predicament. This title focuses on our psychological predicament, as news of the situation slowly penetrates our defences and we struggle as individuals and as a society to find an adequate response.
Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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Engaging with Climate Change is one of the first books to explore in depth what climate change actually means to people. It brings members of a wide range of different disciplines in the social sciences together in discussion and to introduce a psychoanalytic perspective.
Acorns Among the Grass.: Adventures in Eco-therapy
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This important book presents an approach to working with the environment which embraces the therapeutic and the spiritual, offering a model of working which is sympathetic and creative.