COMMITTEE REPORTS Continued.

CLIMATE Continued.

in this area and did not get an adequate percent of residencies responding, the study was limited. This current project does not have that limitation as we only need an adequate number of residents to show the material is learned. Difficulties of this project included study design validity, that much of the material to be studied and vetted comes from outside of psychiatry, and the making of the videos that will be used. We anticipate it will proceed slowly.

Target journal: Academic Psychiatry

Help requested: study design

States-of-mind paper

This paper, which is of great interest to us, aims to describe states of mind arising currently in response to the climate crisis, rooting them in natural metaphors which we believe are grounding both for lay use and use by psychotherapists aiming to help patients struggling with climate overwhelm as well as the demand for rapid change, whether through the need for a just transition in employment or through the emergent nature of the climate poly crisis. We anticipate this project will be completed by one year from now at the outside, preferably by July.

Target Journal: Academic Psychiatry

Other publication targets: Twitter, American Psychologist, Psychology Today blog, Psych Times

Retreat

The climate committee participated in the retreat. In the Ethics and Justice group, we highlighted the need for a revision of the mission statement to define and include core GAP values in addition to intellectual inquiry—highlighting particularly the values of care, duty to warn, sustainability, and equity broadly conceived—as well as the need for an institutional self-assessment to see if we are actually living those principles. In the meetings group, we highlighted the need for anticarboniferous meetings to meet global warming targets for 2030 and the use of one zoom meeting per year as an optimal solution for this, as well as the use of our carbon footprint paper model to determine the optimal location for the meeting from both an equity and sustainability perspective.

In the working together group, we highlighted the need for social and environmental justice in the focus of our products and our interpersonal interactions as we respond to the dual challenges of the coming decades: emergent chaotic processes of change and the climate polycrisis/metacrisis.

The Climate Committee would like to express its continued gratitude to GAP for its support of these innovative ways of thinking and the import of climate change for psychiatry. At the same time, we were quite taken aback by what was felt to be a patronizing and dismissive tone taken by a female senior member of GAP who presented the meeting group discussion about changing the GAP meeting structure to improve our carbon footprint. We feel the need to highlight that the callous indifference towards the lives and wellbeing of hundreds of millions reflected in this stance— as it was perceived by a number of us, not only on our committee—reflects poorly on GAP leadership. We would suggest a reparative conversation about this with this individual were she to be open to it.

College Student

Members attending: Brunhild Kring (Chair), Francesco Peluso, Malkah Notman, Helene Keable, Alexandra Ackerman

Not attending: Meera Menon, Lorraine Siggins, Ludmila de Faria

Fellow attending: Isobel Rosenthal

PROJECT TITLES:

1. Psychological Development & Identity Formation in the Age of Social Media

Francesco Peluso & GAP College Student Committee

Here is a summary of key issues under discussion: What are the favorable and unfavorable conditions for emotional development and identity formation presented by social media? For example, opportunity to feel understood by peers, finding community online for isolated students or students who belong to certain social or identity minorities, staying in touch with family and friends across geographical distances, lack of in-person collective experience, certain feeds from social media can become “echo chambers” restricting exposure to different perspectives; the role of psychiatric