Book contents
- Climate Change and Youth Mental Health
- Climate Change and Youth Mental Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Textboxes
- Contributors
- Preface and Introduction
- Considerations
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Conceptual Foundations of Climate Distress in Young People
- Part II Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Youth Climate Distress
- Chapter 10 Therapists’ Perspectives
- Chapter 11 Ecological and Intersectional Perspectives to Reduce Young Adults’ Climate Distress
- Chapter 12 Pediatricians’ Perspectives
- Chapter 13 A Legal Perspective on Judicial Remedies to Respond to Young People’s Climate Distress
- Chapter 14 Coping with Climate Change among Young People
- Chapter 15 Social-Ecological Perspectives and Their Influence on Climate Distress in Young People
- Chapter 16 Parenting and Grandparenting Our Youth in the Climate Crisis
- Chapter 17 Perspectives on Addressing Young People’s Climate Distress in Education
- Chapter 18 Activists’ Perspectives
- Chapter 19 Perspectives from Creative Spaces
- Chapter 20 Landback
- Chapter 21 Future Directions
- Appendix A Resource List for Educators
- Appendix B Costs and Benefits of Activism Scale
- Index
- References
Chapter 19 - Perspectives from Creative Spaces
Transforming Climate Distress through Creative Practice and Re-storying
from Part II - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Youth Climate Distress
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2024
Book contents
- Climate Change and Youth Mental Health
- Climate Change and Youth Mental Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Textboxes
- Contributors
- Preface and Introduction
- Considerations
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Conceptual Foundations of Climate Distress in Young People
- Part II Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Youth Climate Distress
- Chapter 10 Therapists’ Perspectives
- Chapter 11 Ecological and Intersectional Perspectives to Reduce Young Adults’ Climate Distress
- Chapter 12 Pediatricians’ Perspectives
- Chapter 13 A Legal Perspective on Judicial Remedies to Respond to Young People’s Climate Distress
- Chapter 14 Coping with Climate Change among Young People
- Chapter 15 Social-Ecological Perspectives and Their Influence on Climate Distress in Young People
- Chapter 16 Parenting and Grandparenting Our Youth in the Climate Crisis
- Chapter 17 Perspectives on Addressing Young People’s Climate Distress in Education
- Chapter 18 Activists’ Perspectives
- Chapter 19 Perspectives from Creative Spaces
- Chapter 20 Landback
- Chapter 21 Future Directions
- Appendix A Resource List for Educators
- Appendix B Costs and Benefits of Activism Scale
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter discusses the role of creativity, narrative inquiry and meaning-making in making sense of systemic global crises and affirms their important role to play in helping young people deal with climate distress. Drawing on field work with the Dark Mountain Project, a cultural movement that grew out of the Dark Mountain manifesto published in 2009, it also describes how narrative repositioning can offer possibilities for opening up new ways of thinking and being. Using human–nature relationships as the focus for creative practice and inquiry into the narratives that frame each of our lives, participants in this project have broadened their experience of reality and worked through the difficult emotional states that arise with a growing awareness of the crisis occurring in the natural world. This kind of transformation of the ontological and epistemological foundation which frames a person’s lifeworld has the potential to engender a greater sense of belonging, especially if it is undertaken in a larger community of inquiry. By attending to processes of meaning-making in the way we address social and environmental problems, we may open up new avenues for thinking and acting, which help young people to become whole, healthy and resilient human beings in a time of global crises.
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- Climate Change and Youth Mental HealthMultidisciplinary Perspectives, pp. 367 - 384Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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