[1] conducting psychological assessments of world leaders, and at community mental health centers in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area.
Van Susteren is a volunteer with Physicians for Human Rights.,[1] evaluating and testifying on behalf of torture victims seeking political asylum in the United States.
She co-authored "The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States: And Why the U.S. Health Care System is Not Adequately Prepared".
Montana., in which youth plaintiffs assert that state support of fossil fuels is denying their constitutional right to a "clean and healthful environment.
[17] In 2020, Van Susteren released a book, Emotional Inflammation: Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times,[18] to speak to the feelings of anxiety people have experienced due to the Coronavirus-19 pandemic of 2020–2021.
She co-authored the 2013 piece, "Assessing ‘Dangerous Climate Change’: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature", an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science with James Hansen as the principal author.
[19] Van Susteren has contributed an article to the British Journal of Psychiatry in 2018, where she wrote an opinion piece titled "The Psychological Impacts of the Climate Crisis: A Call to Action".
[1] Her publications in professional journals include articles on the Insanity Defense, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Psychiatric Abandonment.