Dr. Jessica Pratt from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine will present and discuss recommendations from the APA and the recently published A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety (Ray, 2020) to build personal attributes and social support among students that will help them prepare for and recover from climate change-related mental health trauma. To effectively address eco-grief and eco-anxiety in students and empower action, educators are tasked not just with teaching their disciplinary knowledge, but educating for critical hope, fostering optimism, cultivating coping mechanisms, and promoting relational learning and connectedness to community.

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