Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities

The book "Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas" provides a step-by-step guide for organizing community-based mental wellness and resilience-building initiatives to prevent and heal individual and collective climate traumas. It utilizes a public health approach to engage community members in building social support networks, making a just transition, learning trauma- and resilience-related skills, and organizing group and community-minded events. This book is essential for mental health, human services, disaster management, climate, faith, education, and other professionals, as well as the public concerned about these issues.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 242 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas is a comprehensive guide that provides a step-by-step approach to organizing community-based, culturally tailored, population-level mental wellness and resilience-building initiatives. Through extensive research, interviews with program leaders, and examples, the book aims to prevent and heal individual and collective climate traumas.

Engaging community members in building robust social support networks, making a just transition by regenerating local physical/built, economic, and ecological systems, learning how trauma and toxic stress can affect the body, mind, and emotions, as well as age and culturally tailored mental wellness and resilience skills, and organizing group and community-minded events that help residents heal their traumas are some of the key strategies discussed in the book. These actions not only build community cohesion and efficacy but also engage residents in solutions to the climate emergency.

The book is essential reading for grassroots, civic, non-profit, private, and public sector mental health, human services, disaster management, climate, faith, education, and other professionals, as well as members of the public concerned about these issues. Readers will gain practical methods based on real-world examples that they can use to organize and facilitate community-based initiatives that prevent and heal mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems and reduce contributions to the climate crisis.

In conclusion, Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to organize community-based initiatives that promote mental wellness and resilience in the face of climate change. By adopting a public health approach and engaging community members in a holistic and culturally tailored manner, we can build a more resilient and sustainable future for ourselves and future generations.

Weight: 384g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032200200