The psychological impacts of global climate change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8722166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas J Doherty (Lewis & Clark College), Susan Clayton (0000-0002-2343-6865, College of Wooster) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 265-276 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0023141 |
| PMID | 21553952 |
| OpenAlex | W2031595809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 248 |
| References cited | 54 |
An appreciation of the psychological impacts of global climate change entails recognizing the complexity and multiple meanings associated with climate change; situating impacts within other social, technological, and ecological transitions; and recognizing mediators and moderators of impacts. This article describes three classes of psychological impacts: direct (e.g., acute or traumatic effects of extreme weather events and a changed environment); indirect (e.g., threats to emotional well-being based on observation of impacts and concern or uncertainty about future risks); and psychosocial (e.g., chronic social and community effects of heat, drought, migrations, and climate-related conflicts, and postdisaster adjustment). Responses include providing psychological interventions in the wake of acute impacts and reducing the vulnerabilities contributing to their severity; promoting emotional resiliency and empowerment in the context of indirect impacts; and acting at systems and policy levels to address broad psychosocial impacts. The challenge of climate change calls for increased ecological literacy, a widened ethical responsibility, investigations into a range of psychological and social adaptations, and an allocation of resources and training to improve psychologists' competency in addressing climate change-related impacts
Climate change · Context (archaeology · Ecological forecasting · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Environmental resource management · Extreme weather · Geography · Global warming · Political economy of climate change · Psychological intervention · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Ecology · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Beyond toxicity11The full text of this article is available via AJPM Online at www.elsevier.com/locate/ajpmonline.
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| Unique citing works | 248 |
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| Citations per year | 16,53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 245 |