Remedies and Inspiring Stories

Chapter 37 - Greening our Practices

Todd Sack, MD, FACP serves as a member of PSR’s board of directors. Dr. Sack is a gastroenterologist and hepatologist in private practice. Dr. Sack is editor of MyGreenDoctor.org, a free environmental service of the Florida Medical Association and the World Medical Association that helps medical offices adopt sustainable practices.

Chapter 38 - Biophilic Design (Forthcoming)

Chapter 39 - Enviromental design in psychiatric asylums

Elizabeth Allured, Psy.D. is on the faculty of Adelphi University’s Postgraduate Programs in the Adult Clinical and School Psychology programs.   As a clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, she co-founded the Climate Psychology Alliance – North America, serving as its co-president for its first 5 years.  She has been writing and publishing papers on the intersection of mental health and the environment since 2007, presenting nationally, internationally, and locally.  She has held workshops for clinicians and university students on clinical aspects of climate psychology, and on the development of emotional resilience in facing the climate crisis.  She has been quoted in various professional and lay media, and is in practice on Long Island, N.Y.  

Chapter 40 - Regenerating Soil, Regenerating Soul: The Role of Emotions in Triggering and Sustaining Climate-Friendly Behavior

Hannah Gosnell, Ph.D., Professor of Geography, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR USA.

Chapter 41 - Navigating Climate Disasters

Dr. Joshua L. DeVincenzo is the Assistant Director for Education and Training and Lecturer at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, and holds a doctorate in Education from Columbia University Teachers College. He develops educational programs on disaster preparedness and climate literacy and has published extensively on climate pedagogy, behavioral science, and cognition.

Syeda Kainaat Jah is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Education and Training division at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, where she manages and designs training programs, and assists with cross-team coordination and grant proposals. She holds a BSc in Political Science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. Currently, Kainaat is pursuing an M.A. in Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Chapter 42 - Cultivating Resilience

Lorenzo Norris, MD, is the medical director of the GW Resiliency & Well-being Center (R&W Center), Chief Wellness Officer for the GW medical enterprise, a psychiatrist at GW Medical Faculty Associates, associate dean for student affairs and administration, and associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at GW School of Medicine & Health Sciences.  Since joining GW in 2006, he has held a variety of leadership positions including director of the GW Hospital Medical Illness Clinic; director of the GW Survivorship Center Psychiatric Services; director of the GW Hospital Consult Liaison Services; medical director of Psychiatric and Behavioral Services for GW Hospital, and associate residency director for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Chapter 43 - Building Community Resilience

Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW is the co-founder of the Trauma Resource Institute and the key developer of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)®. Michael Sapp, Ph.D., is the CEO of the Trauma Resource Institute. Ms. Miller-Karas and Dr. Sapp have led teams into disaster areas worldwide. They have seen first-hand the aftermath of climate change catastrophes and the toll on children, teens, and adults. They have also seen the resiliency inherent in the human spirit and how people can tap into the spirit of hope and rebuild their lives and communities when faced with unimaginable suffering.

Chapter 44 - The Climate Café

Wendy Greenspun, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who serves on the Executive Committee of the Climate Psychology Alliance- North America. She is on faculty at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, The Adelphi University Postgraduate Program in Couple Therapy, and the William Alanson White Couple Training Program. She has published articles and presented nationally and internationally on climate psychology, including at the 2022 UN Psychology Day, and provides trainings and courses for mental health professionals on ways to work with climate distress and grief. She provides workshops on building emotional resilience for sustainability professionals, climate activists, high school and university students, and trains facilitators in running climate cafes. She is in private practice in New York City.

Elizabeth Allured, Psy.D., is on the faculty of Adelphi University’s Postgraduate Programs in the Adult Clinical and School Psychology programs. As a clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, she co-founded the Climate Psychology Alliance – North America, serving as its co-president for its first 5 years. She has been writing and publishing papers on the intersection of mental health and the environment since 2007, presenting nationally, internationally, and locally. She has held workshops for clinicians and university students on clinical aspects of climate psychology, and on the development of emotional resilience in facing the climate crisis. She has been quoted in various professional and lay media, and is in practice on Long Island, N.Y.

Chapter 45 - Trust is Critical to Navigating the Climate Crisis

Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, J.D. is a facilitator, environmental attorney, social justice activist, and the former executive director of Good Grief Network. She has practiced law and activism across continents to support indigenous herders in Mongolia, the U.N. Environment Programme in Nairobi, asylum-seekers in the U.S., and Pacific Island nations facing climate disaster. She has attended two U.N. climate COPs and is responsible for founding the first anti-zionist Jewish organization in Lisbon, Portugal, where she lives. Sarah currently works as a grassroots organizer and Good Grief Network facilitator, where she supports communities in building emotional resilience, collective imagination, and pathways toward transformative justice in times of chaos and uncertainty.  

Chapter 46 - The inner, the outer, and the collective: A framework to help heal the planet

LaUra Schmidt (she/her) is the founder of the Good Grief Network and the brain behind the “10-Steps to Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate” program and the FLOW Facilitation Training. She is a life-long student, curator, and practitioner of personal and collective resilience strategies and a much sought after speaker. Her most recent book, “How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet” was published in August 2023.

Chapter 47 - Climate Aware Therapist Directory

Ariella Cook-Shonkoff is a licensed psychotherapist, art therapist, and writer based in Berkeley, California. She is a former Executive Committee member of Climate Psychology Alliance North America and current co-chair of the expressive arts committee. Ariella's writing about climate change, parenting and mental health has appeared in news outlets such as Washington Post, Grist and San Francisco Chronicle. She is currently working on a book about parenting through the climate crisis to be published in 2025.

Chapter 48 - Minorities - The world has changed and so must we....

Gary Belkin is a psychiatrist who approaches mental health as a building block of social policy and progress. He founded Billion Minds Institute as a “think-action tank” to link mental health to societal problems of great scale and to steward sustainability and promote values consistent with a humane “social climate.” As chair of COP2 , he established a working network aligned around growing climate-psychological resilience and scaling it globally. An initial upshot of that global convergence of knowledge and practice-sharing was the development and implementation of a “Roadmap” strategy launched at COP28 - intended as a means to foster physical and psychological resilience in vulnerable areas and populations.

Chapter 49 - Psychological and Spiritual Resilience in a Climate Emergency: Where Psychiatry and Religion Meet

The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Ph.D., is Missioner for Creation Care (Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, and Southern New England Conference, United Church of Christ) and Creation Care Advisor (Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts).  An Episcopal priest, author, and climate activist, she has been a lead organizer of many Christian and interfaith events about care for Earth and has led spiritual retreats in the U.S.A. and Canada on spiritual resilience and resistance amidst a climate emergency. Her latest book, Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis (2019), is a co-edited anthology of essays. Earlier books include Joy of Heaven, to Earth Come Down (2012, 2013); Christ’s Passion, Our Passions (2002); and Holy Hunger: A Woman’s Journey from Food Addiction to Spiritual Fulfillment (1998, 2000). She has been arrested in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere to protest expanded use of fossil fuels. In 2016 she received the Steward of God’s Creation award from The National Religious Coalition on Creation Care. She is a graduate of Stanford (BA, Russian Literature), Harvard (PhD., Comparative Literature), and Episcopal Divinity School (M.Div.). Her Website, RevivingCreation.org, includes blog posts, sermons, and articles.

John R. Peteet, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also a medical staff executive committee member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is former Chair of Corresponding Committee on Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association.

Chapter 50 - “A Call to Action for Psychiatrists”: Educational Opportunities (CARE model)

John Coverdale, MD, is a New Zealand-born academic psychiatrist, educator, and editor. He is a full professor of psychiatry, behavioural sciences, and medical ethics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Coverdale has authored or co-authored hundreds of publications on mental health, including "Climate Change: A Call to Action for the Psychiatric Profession".

Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, serves as Chairman and the Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is an internationally recognized scholarr in bioethics, psychiatry, medicine, and medical education.

Chapter 51 - Conscientious Protectors and Psychological Evaluations (“Necessity/Duress Defense”)

Chapter 52 - Calling for Standardized Nomenclature for Mental Health Professionals and Climate Specialists

Chapter 53 - Special message to mental health professionals