Getting Involved with Climate Change

Clayton is the Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Clayton’s research examines people’s relationship with the natural environment, how it is socially constructed, and how climate change affects mental health and well-being. She is author of the widely used Climate Change Anxiety Scale and Environmental Identity Scale. A fellow of APA and the International Association of Applied Psychology, she was a lead author on the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Robinson is a clinical psychologist known for her clinical and other work at the intersection of climate change and mental health. She is in APA’s Climate Change Psychology Advisory Group and has served on the executive committee of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. An advocate for using psychology to address the climate crisis, she teaches mental health professionals and trainees, provides climate psychology consulting and workshops through her business Humanity & Planet. Robinson received her BA from Duke University and her doctorate from the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University.

Davenport is an internationally recognized climate psychology educator, consultant, and therapist whose work bridges climate science, psychology, education, policy, media, and social justice. She is the author of five books, including Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change, All the Feelings Under the Sun and What to Do When Climate Change Scares You, both published by APA. Her forthcoming Climate Emotions Workbook for adults will also be released by APA in early 2027. Leslie leads the only university-based Climate Psychology Certification program in the United States, offered through the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Senior director of Congressional and Federal Relations, APA Services.