Psychology as a discipline has been slow to integrate environmental health–related scientific findings into its subfields that comprise the study of a large number of problems and variables. Consequently the discipline has a limited understanding of individual, social, community, or global issues and problems and has not contributed to our understanding of environmental problems to the extent that it could. This article addresses ways of integrating science from other disciplines and from new fields of psychology including ecopsychology and neurobehavioral toxicology and describes in detail a senior-level seminar that incorporates in-depth study of environmental issues into psychology.
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