"Climate mental health care and disaster mental health care are closely related but refer to different areas of practice & concern. However, sometimes they do overlap. Climate mental health focuses on psychological and emotional impacts of long-term climate change, including existential anxiety, chronic stress, grief, and intergenerational trauma on individuals, communities, and future generations.

Disaster mental health focuses on the psychological first aid/support, trauma-sensitive interventions, and long-term recovery following hazards, community crises, including war, genocide, and mass shootings. Both recognize that distress does not occur in isolation or simply reflect individual pathology. They require clinicians and practitioners to look beyond pathology-centered approaches and understand the broader social, cultural, historical, environmental, and collective conditions that shape mental health and well-being."

 

-dix Moore-Broussard, ATR, TCTSY-F

Co-founder/Director