Climate Change

December 10, 2020

From disasters and social disruptions to existential concerns, climate distress groups may not only provide much-needed support to patients but may also help psychiatry’s public health responses.

June 30, 2020

There are moments in history that require us to step back and refocus, to view the issues before us through a new lens and from a different vantage point. We are all now sitting squarely in such a moment.

March 24, 2020

In 2009 I attended the United Nations Copenhagen Climate Conference. The general thought at the time was that it was the last best opportunity to keep the world from warming over 2 degrees centigrade.

February 13, 2020

Because climate instability is a global challenge, America and Australia, on different sides of the world, can model how global partnerships can work.

January 27, 2020

The increase in repeated disasters and associated social stressors linked to global warming is likely to affect the mental wellbeing of billions of persons in the 21st century.

December 31, 2019

Environmental factors in addition to climate change-air pollution, toxins, noise-seem to have detrimental psychological repercussions.

December 01, 2019

Climate medicine: What was once on the radar of just a handful of physicians has exploded into awareness, alarm, and sometimes debate and skepticism. No matter how you look at it, psychiatrists are on the front lines.

November 22, 2019

The Clean Air Act (CAA) turned 55 years old last year. Most millennials and Gen Xers have had little idea what this legislation has meant for us, even though it may have given us each almost a year of productive life.

October 29, 2019

A radical and urgent perspective about the realities of climate change.

September 19, 2019

Nature provides both physical and psychological benefits. How does this healing through exposure to nature occur?