Climate Change

Climate change is a devastating existential threat that can exaggerate preexisting inequities and health/mental health problems. As mental health professionals committed to understanding deep emotional wounds and addressing complexities of relationships, psychiatrists have the tools to assist in bridging the current gaps.

How might droughts and monsoons in India and China lead to problems in American clinics?

These 4 disastrous climate change events affected Black Americans disproportionately…

Ultimately, the climate change crisis underlies an already growing mental health crisis and Hispanic/Latinx heterogeneity shapes different patterns of environmental injustice.

Respect for Indigenous peoples and their knowledge is crucial to the resolution of climate change.

Powerful psychic defenses are keeping humanity from facing a number of interconnected crises. How can these psychic defenses be overcome?

We need Earth Day every day.

Keep the earth in mind.

The Racism & Psychiatry collection highlights the ways communities of color have been uniquely impacted by climate disruption and what psychiatrists can do about it.

Ancient religious texts from India explain the deep connections between human beings and their environment.

Australia’s cascading environmental crises are all likely effects of climate change. How can psychiatrists and other mental health stakeholders respond?

All it takes is one tree, one connection…

Ancient creation stories can still tell us something about our world.

It is not just a day.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Hurricane Maria was the wakeup call many Puerto Ricans needed to become active in social justice efforts. Their story serves as an example of transformational resilience.

Hurricane Maria was the wakeup call many Puerto Ricans needed to become active in social justice efforts. Their story serves as an example of transformational resilience.

No doubt the climate is changing dramatically, and the evidence of profound heat waves and their impacts confront us in large and small ways on a regular basis.

A climate change and mental health pioneer goes down memory lane with the Times.

All together, right now, no matter what it takes-only this attitude can unite our response to the climate catastrophe that is the imminent consequence of our many small everyday actions.

There’s an old joke about change: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but the light bulb really has to want to change.