The results of climate change—more frequent and intense storms, extreme heat, and prolonged wildfire seasons, among others—are leaving a wreckage of socioeconomic consequences for society and future generations. Increasingly, attention is shifting to the neuropsychiatric damage and emotional effects of the climate crisis, including traumas, anxiety, grief, and rage. Although a number of books have been written in response, they have largely been aimed at the layperson; none have been written by physicians to support the day-to-day work of psychiatrists as they address these symptoms and struggles with their patients.

The Handbook of Climate Psychiatry and Psychotherapy has been written to fill this gap, putting everything the mental health clinician needs to know in one place. It provides the science and guidance needed for the psychiatric and psychological response to climate change in a format accessible to office- or clinic-based mental health clinicians, including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and allied professionals.

Divided into four sections, this volume includes