Coping With Extreme Heat
Click on the button below to access our coping with extreme heat resources. These resources will help you, your loved ones, and those you work with to protect against extreme heat. Learn more and save a life!
Coping with Climate Distress
The climate crisis is one of the most significant psychosocial stressors of the 21st century. Access resources for children, youth, adults of all ages, and mental health clinicians on how to manage climate distress.
Smoke, Wildfires & Air Pollution
Wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe. Wildfires pose serious threats to physical and mental health and have far-reaching public health implications.
Read this powerful poem, entitled “Haze” on this topic from Serena Blacklow.
Click here to view Climate Psychology Alliance North America’s Toolkit for Supporting Youth After Wildfire.
Students at UCSF have developed a patient resource on wildfires and mental health available in three languages: English, Spanish, and Mandarin.
Children/Youth and Climate
The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry has an in depth Climate Change Resource Center for families and youth.
You can find answers to questions including: How can I support a child who is anxious about climate change?
There are facts for families, videos, book recommendations, research and training, and most importantly, ways of getting help.
Climate-Aware Therapist Directory
The Climate Psychiatry Alliance and Climate Psychology Alliance North America are building a directory of climate-aware mental health professionals, as a public resource.
Climate & Health Organizations
Discover organizations that you can join right now as a supporting member or active leader.
Green Your Office
View This free environmental sustainability and climate change program offered by the Climate Psychiatry Alliance to members of CPA.
Creative Arts and Climate Communications
“Words, words, words, I’m so sick of words”. Lyrics from “Show Me” in film, My Fair Lady
Creative expression can often help to articulate things that are hard to express in words. Art can deeply touch the heart in ways that words sometimes miss and can visually articulate feelings that can be hard to express. Creating art, even for the non-artist, can help people process difficult emotions and create and show images of hope and strength.
These tools in both English and Spanish can help individuals and art therapists process the many thoughts, feelings, hopes and experiences arising from our climate climate.
Accessing Creative Therapies for Climate Emotions:
