气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Climate change-related concerns in psychotherapy: therapists' experiences and views on addressing this topic in therapy

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DOI	10.1186/s40359-024-01677-x
	Climate change-related concerns in psychotherapy: therapists' experiences and views on addressing this topic in therapy
	Trost, Katharina; Ertl, Verena; Koenig, Julia; Rosner, Rita; Comtesse, Hannah
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2050-7283
起始页码	12
结束页码	1
卷号	12 期号:1
英文摘要	Background While adverse impacts of climate change on physical health are well-known, research on its effects on mental health is still scarce. Thus, it is unclear whether potential impacts have already reached treatment practice. Our study aimed to quantify psychotherapists' experiences with patients reporting climate change-related concerns and their views on dealing with this topic in psychotherapy.Methods In a nationwide online survey, responses were collected from 573 psychotherapists from Germany. Therapists reported on the presence of such patients, their socio-demographic characteristics, and climate change-related reactions. Psychotherapists' views on dealing with this topic in psychotherapy were also assessed. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the responses.Results About 72% (410/573) of psychotherapists indicated having had patients expressing concerns about climate change during treatment. Out of these therapists, 41% (166/410) stated that at least one patient sought treatment deliberately because of such concerns. Patients were mainly young adults with higher education. Most frequent primary diagnoses were depression, adjustment disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. Psychotherapists having encountered such patients differed from those without such encounters in their views on potential functional impairment and the necessity to target the concerns in treatment. Although 79% (326/415) of all respondents felt adequately prepared by their current therapeutic skills, 50% (209/414) reported a lack of information on how to deal with such concerns in therapy.Conclusions Results indicate that psychotherapists are frequently confronted with climate change-related concerns and regard the mental health impact of climate change on their patients as meaningful to psychotherapeutic care. Regular care could be improved by a continuous refinement of the conceptualization and knowledge of the mental health influences of climate change. This would allow providing tailored methods of assessing and addressing climate change-related concerns in practice.
英文关键词	Climate change; Psychotherapists; Mental health treatment; Climate anxiety
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Psychology
WOS类目	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:001198688900003
来源期刊	BMC PSYCHOLOGY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/285879
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Trost, Katharina,Ertl, Verena,Koenig, Julia,et al. Climate change-related concerns in psychotherapy: therapists' experiences and views on addressing this topic in therapy[J],2024,12(1).
APA	Trost, Katharina,Ertl, Verena,Koenig, Julia,Rosner, Rita,&Comtesse, Hannah.(2024).Climate change-related concerns in psychotherapy: therapists' experiences and views on addressing this topic in therapy.BMC PSYCHOLOGY,12(1).
MLA	Trost, Katharina,et al."Climate change-related concerns in psychotherapy: therapists' experiences and views on addressing this topic in therapy".BMC PSYCHOLOGY 12.1(2024).