On The Development Trend And Prospect Of Ecological Psychology

In 21st Century, Humans need to create a new era of ecological civilization environment, and the pursuit of the harmonious coexistence of man and nature becomes the target of human development. Ecological crisis is one of the major problems that all the countries and individuals must face. With the attention to the global ecological crisis, ecological psychology has increasingly become the hot spot of psychological research. As a new research orientation, the main task and the goal of ecological psychology is to study the interaction between individuals and the natural, social environment that they live in, and seek to meet the reasonable need of people when ecology and the environment working as a continuum. However, there is no unified definition of ecological psychology, due to its multidisciplinary nature. At the same time,as the content of ecological psychology is extremely broad, many latest research achievements of also lack summarization. All of these to some extent hindered its healthy and rapid development. Therefore, this study attempts to describe a more complete and clear image of ecological psychology though new ideas,in order to provide some references for later researchers.The study is carried out under complex background. The division within Psychology, ecological movement and human rights movement, especially the growing ecological crisis, all of which gave birth to ecological psychology. Thus, ecological psychology gets a development opportunity. Theory is to guide practice. In order to make the reader more meticulous understanding of ecological psychology the study explains several important concepts of ecological psychology, such as ecological self, redefinition of animals and environment, etc., to understand ecological psychology deeply enough. To give full play to the role of ecological psychology in solving the current difficulties, the study makes a brief introduction to the domestic and foreign research about ecological psychology as well as the background, the basic thought of ecological psychology and basic theory of ecological psychology, so as to describe the outline of ecological psychology. At the same time, based on the importance of theoretical paradigm in discipline development, this part details the latest theoretical paradigm the ecological psychology, so as to inspire researchers in theory.Then, the study compares ecological psychology with its confusing subjects such as environmental psychology, social and ecological psychology and the phenomenological psychology, making the advantages and disadvantages of ecological psychology stand out. The fifth part, also the most important part of this study, describes the hot spots and new progress of ecological psychology.research New environmental factors give ecological psychology research hot spots. This study considers climate, education, psychotherapy patterns, etc., which are all popular now, as hot spots of the research of ecological psychology. After summarization, the writer extracts behavior strategies responding to ecological crisis such as climate changes etc. Those strategies include increasing understanding of psychology and sensitive environmental policy problems; enhancing cognitive and positive coping strategies; changing from individual behavior to collective action, and so on. All these will help to alleviate the ecological crisis and make a positive impact on the relationship between human and environment they live in. As focusing on life world which is complicated, ecological psychology has spawned many new research fields. The study in this part, expounds new research fields of ecological psychology, which are closely related to human life, such as the Internet ecological psychology, community ecological psychology and leisure ecological psychology. These new fields fully reveal that ecological psychology carries out its research facing to the life world and sees people’s beliefs, needs, research and value as its research concepts. The six chapter introduces the evaluation and prospects of ecological psychology. As a new research orientation of psychology, the birth of ecological psychology has injected fresh blood into psychology, and brings lasting development for psychology. However, everything has two sides, ecological psychology is no exception. Ecological psychology has limitations, such as the metatheory of ecology is not in-depth, and empirical research of ecological psychology requires a lot of manpower and material resources, financial resources. All these to some extent limit the progress of ecological psychology. Under the new situation, ecological psychology is facing new challenges. In the future, ecological psychology needs to make efforts on the folio wings:changing the status quo of anthropocentrism and technology optimism;modifying its inadequacy; dealing well with relationship with the mainstream psychology, etc, so to obtain the long-term development of the ecological psychology.