For helpful resources on the issue of climate change and mental health, Dr Chloe Watfern, transdisciplinary researcher and Scientia PhD scholar, recommends:

■ Climate Psychology Alliance, climatepsychologyalliance.org;

■ Climate Psychiatry Alliance, climatepsychiatry.org;

■ Britt Wray – Generation dread, book and newsletter, brittwray.com/gen-dread;

■ Leslie Davenport – All the feelings under the sun, booktopia.com.au/all-the-feelings-underthe-sun-leslie-davenport/book/9781433833915.html;

■ Joanna Macy and Chris Johnston – Active hope, book and free online course, activehope.info;

■ Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine Wilkinson – All We Can Save, allwecansave.earth; and

■ Psychology for a Safe Climate – lots of great events, including training for mental health professionals, and climate cafés’, psychologyforasafeclimate.org.

For CA’s interview with Dr Watfern, click here. 

Dr Rebecca Patrick, senior lecturer at Deakin University and a co-director of its Health, Nature, Sustainability Research Group, recommends:

■ Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA), caha.org.au;

■ Australian Psychological Society, psychology.org.au;

■ The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, ranzcp.org/home; and

■ Doctors for the Environment Australia, dea.org.au.

For CA’s interview with Dr Patrick, click here.

Jules Silva offers:

Some books of interest

■ Klein, N. (2015). This changes everything: Capitalism vs. the climate. Simon and Schuster.

■ Macy, J., & Johnstone, C. (2012). Active hope: How to face the mess we’re in without going crazy. New World Library.

■ Weintrobe, S. (2021). Psychological roots of the climate crisis. Neoliberal exceptionalism and the culture of uncare. Bloomsbury. doi.org/10.5040/9781501372902

■ Weintrobe, S., Robertson, C., Hollway, W., & Hoggett, P. (2022). Climate psychology: A matter of life and death. Phoenix.