Book contents
- Climate Change and Youth Mental Health
- Climate Change and Youth Mental Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Textboxes
- Contributors
- Preface and Introduction
- Considerations
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Conceptual Foundations of Climate Distress in Young People
- Part II Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Youth Climate Distress
- Chapter 10 Therapists’ Perspectives
- Chapter 11 Ecological and Intersectional Perspectives to Reduce Young Adults’ Climate Distress
- Chapter 12 Pediatricians’ Perspectives
- Chapter 13 A Legal Perspective on Judicial Remedies to Respond to Young People’s Climate Distress
- Chapter 14 Coping with Climate Change among Young People
- Chapter 15 Social-Ecological Perspectives and Their Influence on Climate Distress in Young People
- Chapter 16 Parenting and Grandparenting Our Youth in the Climate Crisis
- Chapter 17 Perspectives on Addressing Young People’s Climate Distress in Education
- Chapter 18 Activists’ Perspectives
- Chapter 19 Perspectives from Creative Spaces
- Chapter 20 Landback
- Chapter 21 Future Directions
- Appendix A Resource List for Educators
- Appendix B Costs and Benefits of Activism Scale
- Index
- References
Chapter 11 - Ecological and Intersectional Perspectives to Reduce Young Adults’ Climate Distress
Reflections from a Work That Reconnects Program
from Part II - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Youth Climate Distress
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2024
Book contents
- Climate Change and Youth Mental Health
- Climate Change and Youth Mental Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Textboxes
- Contributors
- Preface and Introduction
- Considerations
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Conceptual Foundations of Climate Distress in Young People
- Part II Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Youth Climate Distress
- Chapter 10 Therapists’ Perspectives
- Chapter 11 Ecological and Intersectional Perspectives to Reduce Young Adults’ Climate Distress
- Chapter 12 Pediatricians’ Perspectives
- Chapter 13 A Legal Perspective on Judicial Remedies to Respond to Young People’s Climate Distress
- Chapter 14 Coping with Climate Change among Young People
- Chapter 15 Social-Ecological Perspectives and Their Influence on Climate Distress in Young People
- Chapter 16 Parenting and Grandparenting Our Youth in the Climate Crisis
- Chapter 17 Perspectives on Addressing Young People’s Climate Distress in Education
- Chapter 18 Activists’ Perspectives
- Chapter 19 Perspectives from Creative Spaces
- Chapter 20 Landback
- Chapter 21 Future Directions
- Appendix A Resource List for Educators
- Appendix B Costs and Benefits of Activism Scale
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter we reflect on core components of an immersive program for young adults focused on how to come of age in and be in service to the complex matrix of demands of these times. Our program, called the Earth Leadership Cohort (ELC), was an adaptation of the Work That Reconnects for North American 18- to 30-year-olds. We describe the rationale and framework of the Work That Reconnects that shaped our curriculum. We focus on two features of ELC that we found to be essential when working with young adults in the context of the climate crisis. First, paradigms must shift from anthropocentric to ecocentric. Second, we must meet the generational demand for an intersectional approach. We describe challenges that required our willingness to adapt to our participants’ call for greater intersectionality and to attend to the role of systemic racism in the history and practice of climate activism. Throughout, we offer a sampling of our practices and processes for illustration. We conclude with a discussion of inherent limitations and possible applicability and relevance of our program for those working with young adults across multiple settings.
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- Climate Change and Youth Mental HealthMultidisciplinary Perspectives, pp. 210 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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