Environmental psychology in the Philippines: Growth, challenges and prospects.

Environmental psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology that deals with the interplay between people and their environment (Stern, [60]), with a huge part of the discipline dedicated to conservation and sustainability (Giuliani & Scopelliti, [33]). This can be partly addressed if psychology scholars in the country will pursue graduate research training from established environmental psychology programmes abroad and return to the country to pursue their respective research programmes. First, environmental psychology in the country continues to receive active support from professional organisations in psychology and allied fields, which facilitates the increased awareness of environmental psychology in professional circles. Third and last, psychology in the Philippines has an active recognition and promotion of indigenous conceptualisation and approaches to understanding the psychology of Filipinos, which has been useful in the emerging studies in environmental psychology in the country. [Extracted from the article]