Free Course Preview! Integrating a Climate-Conscious Approach into your Health and Human Services Work – Noncredit

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Free Course Preview! Integrating a Climate Conscious Approach into your Health and Human Services Work

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Summary

Join us for a free webinar presented by instructor Thomas Doherty, Psy.D. that re-envisions working with clients, patients, students and others on issues related to mental health and climate change. If the webinar piques your interest we hope you'll register for the full 3-hour course, "Integrating a Climate-Conscious Approach to Your Work with Others."

What you'll learn

Before working with others, it is important to explore your own environmental identity and beliefs (including sources of well-being and resilience, trauma and injustice). This free webinar explores personal motivations, guiding ethical principles, and skills and competencies for providing counseling, therapy, health care, education, or social support that uses best practices to address ecological and climate concerns and distress. It introduces the concepts and lays the groundwork for learners interested in participating in the full three-hour course

Who can attend?

The webinar is free and open to health and human services providers, counselors/therapists, educators, student services staff and other interested in learning more about how to address environmental and climate concerns among individuals they work with, including identifying opportunities to apply interventions. The webinar is ideal for those interested in the topic and registering for the full 3-hour course, "Integrating a Climate-Conscious Approach to Your Work with Others," to be held November 5, noon–3 p.m. CST.

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Meet your instructor

Thomas Joseph Doherty

(Psy.D.) is a psychologist based in Portland, Oregon who has a specialty addressing people’s concerns about environmental issues and climate change. His publications include the groundbreaking paper “The Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change”- cited nearly 1000 times. He’s a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and founded one of the first environmentally-focused training programs for mental health counselors in the US at Lewis & Clark Graduate School. He is originally from Buffalo, New York. His work has been featured in publications like the New York Times. He also co-hosts the Climate Change and Happiness podcast. You can learn more about him and his trainings for mental health professionals at his website (www.selfsustain.com).