Ecotherapy
Guest Editor
Susan Bodnar, PhD
Teachers College, Columbia University
Ecopsychology will publish a Special Issue on Ecotherapy. We seek empirical and theoretical papers—and evocative essays—that address this topic.
We particularly welcome articles that fit within the following two broad areas. One is on how nature can be included into the framing and conduct of the therapeutic relationship to treat established mental health struggles as described by DSM-V and ICD-10, as well as those outside the established diagnostic categories. Illustrative topics include:
- Walk therapy
- Wilderness therapy
- Equine (and other animal assisted) therapies
- Ayurvedic therapy
- Sweat lodge therapy
- Treatment using indigenous plants and hallucinogens
- Microbiome therapy
- Shinrin-yoku (Japanese forest bathing)
The second area is on how therapy can alleviate climate-induced human suffering, and/or enable people to take constructive action to help themselves and their communities in the face of what people increasingly experience as climate trauma. Illustrative topics include:
- CBT desensitization and behavior modification for climate anxiety
- Psychodynamic approaches to climate-change induced symptoms
- Trauma based therapy
- Logotherapy
- Group therapy
- Mindfulness and other spiritually informed interventions
- Culturally focused dynamic systems therapy
- Solastalgia and Psychoterratic syndromes
We believe that nature aware therapeutic approaches can fortify the human spirit. This Special Issue will explore this idea and, by bridging psychotherapy and ecopsychology, strengthen both fields and equip practitioners with tools to help them better care for people and our environment.
Benefits of publishing with Ecopsychology:
- Fast and user-friendly electronic submission
- Efficient and constructive peer review
- Prompt online publication
- High global visibility: accessible in 170 countries worldwide
- Open Access options available
Your contribution should be no longer than 5,500 words (excluding references) and submitted by October 20, 2022.
For questions, please contact guest editor, Dr. Susan Bodnar.
Visit the Journal's website to view more information for authors including manuscript guidelines, information on available author services, and publication costs.