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The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health

A Systemic Descriptive Review

1.5 CE Hour
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About the Course

Climate change is one of the great challenges of our time. The consequences of climate change on exposed biological subjects, as well as on vulnerable societies, are a concern for the entire scientific community. Rising temperatures, heat waves, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, fires, loss of forest, and glaciers, along with disappearance of rivers and desertification, can directly and indirectly cause human pathologies that are physical and mental. This review looked for the association between classical psychiatric disorders such as anxiety schizophrenia, mood disorder and depression, suicide, aggressive behaviors, despair for the loss of usual landscape, and phenomena related to climate change and extreme weather.

This course is based on the reading online article, The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health created by Paolo Cianconi, MD, Ph.D. et al in 2020.

Publication Details

Publication Date: Mar 2020

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Paolo Cianconi, MD, Ph.D.
Dr. Paolo Cianconi is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and anthropologist. He currently works at the Regina Coeli Prison, ASL Rome, Together with this work, he also carries out research and teaches at several institutions, focusing on issues of clinical psychiatry, psychology, social deviance and marginality, ethnopsychiatry and psychology of postmodern life. He is scientific director of the masters program on ethnopsychiatry at the Beck Institute in Rome. Dr. Cianconi also teaches masters programs in a number of psychotherapy schools in Italy.
Sophia Betrò, MD
Dr. Betro is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist affiliated with the Institute of Psychopathology in Rome, Italy.
Professor Luigi Janiri
Prof. Luigi Janiri is currently Associate and qualified Full Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of the Psychiatry Residency Training at the Catholic University in Rome, Italy. He is also Head of the Unit of Liaison Psychiatry at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome and Professor of Psychopathology at the LUMSA University in Rome. His main topics of his interest are: addictions, affective disorders, impulsivity, anhedonia, post-traumatic syndromes, social psychiatry, treatments including pharmacotherapies, psychotherapies and rehabilitation.

Target Audience

Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Discuss climate change and its causes.
  2. 2 List the major extreme weather events.
  3. 3 Summarize how different extreme weather events impact mental health.
  4. 4 List populations more vulnerable to mental health crises related to extreme weather events.
  5. 5 Explain the difference between immediate, indirectly in the short term, and indirectly in the long term climate change events.

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Course Details

1.5 CE Hours
Reading Online
Course 103536

Related Topics

Climate Change Ecology

Availability

This course is available until Dec 30th, 2029.

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