( HS Goldman 059726 2024) Climate Change and Youth: Turning Grief, Loss, and Anxiety into Action

Course overview

Too many of our young people have become fearful and grief stricken, after a lifetime of bombardment by media information and images suggesting their planet could become so injured it might die during their natural lifetime. As clinicians we need to help embolden children, teens, parents, and caring adults to join in acting for the health and wellbeing of everyone on Earth. It lays a foundation for understanding the grief and loss our youth feel for themselves, the planet, and every person, creature, and plant that exists. In this session, Linda Goldman, author of Climate Change and Youth, and active member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, will show you how to create a foundation of understanding that our youth are grieving losses related to climate change. It lays a foundation for terminology, accurate understandings, activities for action on the planet, state of the art projects within the schools, global environmental youth communities, and older generation environmental involvement as well.