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Climate Change and Pastoral Care with University Students
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3452859 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Tind Johannessen (0009-0005-0493-6097, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 527 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13060527 |
| OpenAlex | W4282545402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 44 |
This article explores how pastoral care is performed in an age of climate change. University students suffer from a wide range of stresses, reducing their well-being. Climate change compounds these stress reactions, even where students are not directly affected. As climate change affects concrete, material matters, human reactions to it may no longer be viewed and treated as purely inner psychic states. Thus, climate change disrupts usual divisions of material, social, and mental features as separate categories, underscoring instead the close-knit relations between them. Given the far-reaching ways climate change affects mental health, the article presents an ethnographical-theologically-driven model for basic conversation in pastoral care with students in the midst of escalating climate events. Making use of theories from anthropology, psychology, and theology, this article builds on in-depth interviews with Danish university chaplains about their pastoral care with students. The model extrapolates from these theories how pastoral care may support students in the era of climate change through a triad of organizing themes that come to the fore in the interviews: "Mothering the Content", "Loving Vital Force", and "Befriending the Environment
Climate change · Conversation · Danish · Ethnography · Mental health · Pastoral care · Pastoral theology · Political science · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology · Theological Perspectives and Practices · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |