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Exploring the Essential Features of “Thomas Doherty – Eco-Therapy in Action: Addressing Climate Concerns in Clinical Work”
Eco-Therapy in Action: Addressing Climate Concerns in Clinical Work
Speaker: Thomas Doherty, PsyD
Duration: 4 Hours 07 Minutes
Description
Last summer was this country’s hottest on record. Worldwide, all living creatures suffered through excessive droughts, heatwaves, and a wildfire season that only halfway through the calendar year was worse than any in previous year. With two-thirds of the population anxious about climate change, and more than half worried about its effects on their mental health, becoming a climate-aware therapist is a competency we should all be considering. The mainstay of good ecotherapy is your own “environmental identity.” This self-concept and sense of relationship with nature provides the base on which to build client-specific, ecotherapy interventions. In this experiential session, you’ll discover how to:
- Explore one’s environmental identity, beliefs, and experiences
- Adapt your existing clinical orientation and skill set to address clients’ environmental and climate concerns
- Assess your clients’ sources of environmental well-being and resilience as well as their sense of environmental traumas or injustice
- Integrate ethics, context, and messaging when applying environmental interventions with diverse individuals
Speaker
Thomas Doherty, PsyD
Thomas Doherty, PsyD, is a clinical and environmental psychologist who specializes in addressing personal and organizational concerns about environmental issues and climate change. He’s a fellow of the American Psychological Association, past president of the APA Div. 34 Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology, and founding editor of the academic journal Ecopsychology. His publications on climate change issues include “The Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change,” coauthored by Susan Clayton, and he cohosts the Climate Change and Happiness podcast.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Thomas Doherty maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Thomas Doherty is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Oregon Psychological Association.
Objectives
- Analyze recent research on mental health impacts of climate change and other environmental issues.
- Catalogue common responses and stressors regarding ecological issues and practice skills for responding clinically.
- Differentiate between (1) normal feelings of anxiety and despair regarding environmental issues and (2) clinical anxiety, depression and adjustment disorders.
- Practice adapting common therapy approaches to include ecological concerns.
- Demonstrate specialized approaches for unique populations including ways to support environmental professionals and developmental needs of children and young people.
Outline
- Mental health impacts of climate change and environmental issues
- Diversity, equity, and social justice issues related to environmental issues
- Assessments for identifying links between nature values and sustainability actions
- Differentiating between normal eco-stressors and clinical significant and / or diagnosable eco-anxiety or trauma
- Therapeutic interventions for ecological related mental distress
- Demonstrations and role-plays of eco- and climate-conscious therapy, ethics, practices, risks, and limitations
- Working with special populations
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Nurse PractitionersÂ
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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