After a recent ITRC Steering committee meeting, member Dr. David Pollack sent the following resources ITRC members might be interested in:
Climate Psychiatry Alliance (CPA) website, recently launched and which will hopefully be updated regularly with lots of useful information about climate and mental health issues, including the slide presentations we have been putting on at various meetings, brief summaries of key issues, etc. www.climatepsychiatry.
Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health has a great website with an abundance of information on climate and health issues. It also has all of the presentation slides from the conference that was held in April. https://
I am also attaching a table of strategy ideas that I put together from the steering committee meeting we had during that conference, some of the ideas in which may be of interest and/or applicable to other groups. (see attached).
A terrific editorial came out in Academic Psychiatry in February calling the entire profession of psychiatry to action on climate change. They cited the work that we have been doing and suggested a framework for the mental health professions to consider in organizing our climate and mental health work, CARE, which we, in the Climate Psychiatry Alliance, have adapted to be Clinical, Administrative/Advocacy, Research, and Education. Their emphasis was on the need to incorporate climate and health issues into the curricula for undergraduate medical schools and psychiatric residency training programs. https://link.
The American Psychiatric Association has now accepted our (the CPA folks) urgent request to create a Caucus on Climate Change and Mental Health, the first meeting of which was last Monday in NYC. We are very encouraged that our work is paying off and that we are attracting an ever larger number of folks to attend our educational and strategic planning sessions. The APA has established a nice webpage on climate and mental health issues. https://www.
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