This is a topic-guide for climate anxiety. Inside it you will find brief introductions to the topic, helpful videos, suggested readings, and links West Los Angeles College Library resources.
Engaging with climate change on any level takes an emotional toll on students and instructors alike. See below a list of curriculum resources that address the affective aspects of teaching climate change.
Academic article by Audrey Bryan, published in Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 2020. Provides "a conceptual toolkit to inform the psycho-affective aspects of CCE, with a particular emphasis on the pedagogical complexities of engaging learners located in emissions-intensive societies with their role as ‘implicated subjects’ in the climate crisis."
"The All We Can Save Project is on a mission to embed climate truth, courage, and just solutions in education — and to make it exceedingly easy to use the anthology within classrooms and beyond "
Academic article by Panu Pihkala published in journal Sustainability in 2020. Reviews the literature related to eco-anxiety, and proposes strategies for educators to address their own difficult emotions and to develop emotional skills for their teaching.
From the Climate Therapy Alliance, Pacific Northwest Chapter. Includes a toolkit of exercises and activities to promote resilience and address eco-anxiety.
