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Climate Change and Mental Health

Access

12 months

Format

Online Webinar

Duration

1 hour

Presenter

Gabriela Stilita

What are the health impacts of ‘climate change on mental health’? How we can better understand climate change and its impact on mental health.

Join Gabriela Stilita, Clinical Psychologist and Climate Aware practitioner, in discussion on the impacts of climate change on the environment and its influence on health, including mental health and changes on the wider determinants of health.

Topics covered include:
  • The impact of severe weather events
  • Severe weather events and trauma / PTSD, suicidality, psychiatric hospitalization, aggressive behaviors and domestic violence, anxiety and depressive symptoms and substance abuse.
  • Indirect impacts such as eco anxiety, hopelessness, grief, compound stress, helplessness and resignation and substance abuse.

MEET YOUR PRESENTER

Gabriela Stilita

Clinical Psychologist, Author
abriela wears many hats: a vegan, a feminist, a published author, a DIYer, a mother, a workshop presenter, an avid student, a Clinical Psychologist, and a Board Approved Supervisor. Gaby has 15 years of experience in various settings overseas and in Australia.

Recently, she has decided to incorporate her values and long-standing concerns about climate change into her professional life. Since she finished a Graduate Certificate in Humanitarian Health, Gabriela is currently a candidate for the Master of Public Health at UQ, focusing on the interaction between climate change and mental health. In 2020, Gabriela created Second Chance Psychology, a private practice focusing on our mental health whilst also caring for the environment.