Eco-psychology - Meaning, Aims, Principles, Teaching Strategies of Eco-Psychology Educational Psychology (BEd)

1. Suresh Babu G
Asst Professor
CPAS CTE Paippad,Kottayam

2.  Eco-Psychology – Meaning
 Aims of Eco-Psychology
 Importance of Eco-Psychology
 Principles of Eco-Psychology
 Strategies of teaching Eco-Psychology

3.  Eco-Psychology is the field that studies the
interrelationship between human and nature.
 It is formally named in 1992 by Theodore Roszak,
arose our of environmental movement.
 The field seeks to develop
and understand the way
of expanding the
emotional connection
between individuals and
natural world there by
assisting individual to
develop a sustainable life.

4. According to Davis (2010), eco-psychology is
founded on three main insights:
1) humans and nature have a deeply bonded
relationship;
2) when humans and nature become dissociated
with each other, the result is suffering for both
the environment and people;
3) recognizing the relationship between people and
nature will lead to healing for both.

5.  Shifting environmental action from anxiety, blame,
and coercion to invitation, joy, devotion, and love.
 Fostering ecology thinking and direct contact with
the natural world in psychotherapy and personal
growth.
 Supporting lifestyles
which are both ecologically
and psychologically healthy
and sustainable.

6.  Eco-psychology is an area of study dedicated to an
examination of the emotional bonds that exist between
humans and the natural world.
 It seeks to suggests paths to healing the weakened
connections embedded in the human-nature relationship.
 To develop a psychological perspective within the
environmental movement
 Bringing a psychological approach to environmental
activism may result in greater effectiveness. Specifically,
psychology can be applied to motivate individuals in taking
actions that benefit the environment.
 Psychology can be used to discourage individuals from
taking actions that adversely impact the environment

7. 1. The Earth is a living system
2. Eco-psychology seeks to heal the
alienation between person and planet,
and establish a healthy relationship
between the two.
3. Eco-psychology recognizes that human
consciousness is intricately involved in creating and
maintaining the ecological crisis.
4. Eco-psychology calls for a new cosmology that
embraces not only scientific models and
understandings, but also spiritual teachings, ancient
wisdom, and the non-Western knowledge of
indigenous cultures.
5. Eco-psychology calls for a profound revisioning of
mental health and human consciousness.

8. 6. The drive to live in harmony with the natural world
and its rhythms is primal innate
7. The very notion of sanity must be redefined to
include our planetary home.
8. Eco-psychology utilizes a pluralistic epistemology
and methodology, drawing on mythological and
archetypal understandings, intuitive and emotional
modalities, scientific approaches, and spiritual
practices.
9. Eco-psychology embraces the goals of gender
equity ,racial equity, and “cultural justice”.

10. Strategies of teaching Eco-Psychology