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The CPA-NA blog is a space for members to publish personal essays, op-eds, articles reviews, and interviews that enrich the climate psychology profession and community.

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The Deep Structure of Health

Chris Hoffman describes the premise of his book, “The Hoop and the Tree” a symbolic exploration of relationship with self, community and the more-than-human world.

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Introduction to The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World

Read an excerpt from Jennifer Atkinson and Sarah Jaquette Ray’s forthcoming book, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World, which is coming out with University of California Press in spring 2024. The book promises to be an invaluable resource for the college classroom. It fills a lacuna in most climate change education by centering two themes that are often ignored or sidelined: emotions and justice. For more information about the book, please see UC Press, here.

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Just Breathe

Jenni Silverstein, LCSW explores how her experience with wildfire smoke deepened her understanding of climate justice

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A New Story for our Field

Mark Skelding calls to question the Victorian era assumptions that shape psychotherapy, and postulates a new story of human-ness that is emergent, dynamic, and interwoven within the complex living systems of this planet.

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The 30% Question

Rebecca Hyman, LCSW reflects on the value of the Biodiversity COP 15 agreement to preserve 30% of the Earth’s biodiversity, from a systems perspective.

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Talking to Kids about Climate Change

Part 2: Linda Goldman shares insights, adapted from her book Climate Change and Youth: From depression and anxiety to activism, on how to have these vitally important conversations about climate with our children of all ages

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Talking to Kids about Climate Change

Part 1: Linda Goldman shares insights, adapted from her book Climate Change and Youth: From depression and anxiety to activism, on how to have these vitally important conversations about climate with our children of all ages

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Be the Alarm

Dave Fore’s powerful and in depth exploration of the meaning of protest, and the value of life and death. In the wake of Wynn Bruce’s death by suicide and anticipation of the upcoming SCOTUS ruling on the EPA.

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Impacts, Adaptations, and Vulnerability:

Mental Health Practitioners' Response to the 2022 IPCC Report

Naomi Mandsager Bartley, PhD, LPCC, Selin Nurgün, MS, Deborah Seabrook, PhD RCC MTA respond to the most recent IPCC report with suggestions on how the field of psychotherapy can adapt to our rapidly changing world

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Climate Change Changes Psychotherapy

Deborah Cooper, MFT, responds to the New York Times Article “The Unseen Toll of a Warming World” with her perspective on providing therapy in fire country

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