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The following blog has been produced by Tony Wainwright and Annie Mitchell on behalf of the DCP Southwest Branch Committee.
View resultEnergy consumption is a major contributor to climate change.
View resultWith so many competing priorities in politics right now it can be difficult to know what is being proposed in some areas.
View resultAs the COP27 conference enters its second week, Dr Dan O’Hare, lead author of the paper “The climate crisis, children, young people and educational psychology” explores the continued impact of the climate crisis on children and young people, and what can be done.
View resultOver the past few months we have all been focussed on the Pandemic and the recent increase in infections poses new challenges.
View resultAhead of this year’s UN climate conference, which starts tomorrow, Dr Maya Gimalova and Dr Louise Edgington explore how psychology staff can help manage young people’s climate-related distress.
View resultAfter the surprise result of last week’s election, the Society’s Kathryn Scott, Director of Policy & Communications, and Dr Lisa Morrison Coulthard, Lead Policy Advisor, look at how changes in policies, personalities, and power dynamics in Parliament could affect our discipline.
View resultPermacrisis may have beaten off stiff competition to become Collins Dictionary’s ‘Word of the year’ but Steve Flatt, director of the Working Conversations Group and a member of the BPS’s Political Psychology Section, argues it is a ‘neat psychological trick’ used by politicians to distract voters from focusing on positive, meaningful change.
View result12 Dec 2024
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A joint event between BPS South West Branch and the Division of Coaching Psychology.
17 July 2021
Approaching climate change solely as a behavioural issue and telling people to make sacrifices will not drive effective change, say psychologists.
24 October 2023
The BPS is calling on its members to use their knowledge and skills to help take forward initiatives linked to addressing climate and environmental issues.
05 July 2023
The first day of presentations at the European Congress of Psychology 2023 began with the event’s first keynote speaker Professor Rusi Jaspal.
29 October 2021
Released to coincide with the crucial United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, the latest issue of our clinical psychology publication is free to read for members and the public.
10 October 2024
A coalition of organisations and professional bodies which aims to raise the profile of the mental health sector in addressing the impacts of climate change is being launched today.
12 December 2022
Recruitment is open for the BPS's new Climate and Environmental Action Coordinating Group (CEAC).
03 April 2023
The BPS is pleased to introduce the new members of its Climate Environment Action Coordinating Group.
27 May 2021
A new report from Imperial College London, written with contributions from a number of BPS members, highlights the impact of the climate crisis on mental health.
21 July 2022
In the week the UK experienced record-breaking temperatures, the BPS’ Division of Educational and Child Psychology (DECP) explores the issue of climate breakdown for Educational Psychologists.
05 November 2021
A survey for the British Psychological Society (BPS) shows that 29 per cent of young people (aged 18 – 24 years) believe their mental health has suffered due to concerns about climate change.
05 June 2024
On 1 March 2024, the Board of Trustees considered a proposal under Rule 27(1) of the Society Rules to form a new section, the BPS Environmental Psychology Section.
01 December 2021
As we come to the end of the year, it feels timely to share important updates on our work and to outline the opportunities to contribute to the activities that are planned for 2022
06 January 2021
Two responses to our recent climate change coverage.
09 October 2019
What can psychology do about climate change? Find out in these articles from our pages.
19 February 2009
Alexa Spence, Nick Pidgeon and David Uzzell consider psychology’s role in debating, combating and adapting to climate change.
13 June 2007
Spreading the word about the effect climate change will have on human health.
03 November 2016
Ella Rhodes reports as the Paris Agreement comes into effect.
22 January 2024
Many climate action campaigns are built on the idea of reducing psychological distance to climate change – but new research shows we already feel closer than many assume.
11 May 2021
Ella Rhodes reports on Ethics Committee developments.
11 February 2009
Matthew C. Davis and Rose Challenger argue that it’s time for psychology to lead the way in greening individuals’ behaviours, especially in the workplace.
04 September 2020
Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh on psychology’s role in tackling climate change. As told to Deputy Editor Annie Brookman-Byrne.
29 November 2018
Frederick Toates writes.
16 November 2020
A new study suggests that climate change appeals with pessimistic endings could trigger higher engagement with the issue than those that end on an optimistic note.
10 February 2021
Climate change is now such a major concern that even serious threats of another nature don’t diminish fears at all.
Series: Health Psychology Update Volume: 33 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-06-2024
Author(s): Claudia Teran-Escobar
View The essential role of health psychologists in tackling climate change: Insights from the presentation by Esther K. Papies during the European Health Psychology Society Conference 2022*Series: Occupational Psychology Outlook Volume: 1 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-12-2022
Author(s): Daniel Jolles, Dawn Holford, Marie Juanchich, Kathryn Buchanan, Beatrice Piccoli
View Frontline employees are ready to accept smart energy-saving technologies, especially when they are engaged at work and when they are concerned about climate changeSeries: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 346
Date of Publication: 01-10-2021
Author(s): Philip Cox
View The HCPC should support climate change activists, not question their fitness to practiseSeries: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 346
Date of Publication: 01-10-2021
Author(s): Alison Robertson
View DCP Climate Change Champion – Changing our behaviourSeries: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 346
Date of Publication: 01-10-2021
Author(s): Alice Walker, Lealah Hewitt-Johns
View Bringing climate change into clinical psychology teachingSeries: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 346
Date of Publication: 01-10-2021
Author(s): Joe Rehling
View Helping people and planet: Clinical psychology in a time of climate changeSeries: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 346
Date of Publication: 01-10-2021
Author(s): Alice Walker
View A changing climate for trainee researchSeries: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 346
Date of Publication: 01-10-2021
Author(s): Tony Wainwright
View Psychology and climate change: Past, present and futureSeries: Transpersonal Psychology Review Volume: 23 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-01-2021
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View Special Issue: Climate change crisis and transpersonalSeries: Counselling Psychology Review Volume: 35 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-12-2020
Author(s): Martin Milton, Maya Gimalova, Beth Simmons
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