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This course will introduce mental health concepts of disorder, distress, well-being, and resilience in the context of climate change. Online course sessions will be structured around three pillars: 1) climate change exposures and their impacts on mental health and well-being, 2) social and environmental justice in climate change and mental health, 3) resilience, psychosocial adaptation, and action. Lectures will be given by research, policy, and mental health practice experts. Research findings on direct and indirect mental health and psychosocial impacts of chronic and acute climate change exposures will be presented. Sessions will explore inequalities in climate change impacts on mental health with examples provided from across local and global social and economic contexts. Individual and community-level resilience, psychosocial adaptation, and areas of priority action will be defined, highlighted, and discussed.