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  • Chapter 7 - Understanding the Role of Trauma and Dissociation in Youth Responses to Climate Crises

  • from Part I - Conceptual Foundations of Climate Distress in Young People
  • Edited by Elizabeth Haase, University of Nevada, Reno, Kelsey Hudson, Climate Psychology Alliance North America
  • Book:
    Climate Change and Youth Mental Health
    Published online:
    06 June 2024
    Print publication:
    13 June 2024, pp 130-147

  • Summary

    Humans have evolved as a species with unique capabilities to destroy this world that we inhabit. Some of this destructiveness is a function of a loss of embodied wisdom and a dissociative disconnection from the complex systems of life on the planet. Inaction about climate change is a failure to protect our children and can be considered institutional child abuse. Climate disasters, along with other social injustices, traumatize all life on the planet, and disproportionately impact those already struggling with loss of community support. Fostering posttraumatic wisdom in youth requires recognition that some are vulnerable to maladaptive psychic numbing, while others manifest a resilience born from imagination and creativity.