The Digital Polycrisis: AI Psychology for Human Resilience and Ethical Leadership - Paperback

In 2023, Cha'Von K. Clarke-Joell warned that digital crises do not occur in isolation. They amplify one another, creating a polycrisis that destabilises systems-and the people required to live within them.

By 2026, that reality has arrived.

AI is reshaping careers at speed. Ethical hesitation is often framed as professional risk. "Change or else" has become the dominant logic of digital transformation, and for many, identity, confidence, and moral clarity are quietly eroding under the pressure.

The Digital Polycrisis: AI Psychology for Human Resilience and Ethical Leadership offers a grounded pathway through this space. Rather than treating AI harms as isolated incidents, the book examines how AI deployment, data governance failure, cybersecurity risk, and psychological strain compound to create forms of harm that are felt long before they are acknowledged by policy or compliance frameworks.

Inside, readers will find:

• The Digital Polycrisis Framework: an integrative model explaining how technical, ethical, and psychological pressures converge and intensify one another

• AI Psychology: an examination of how people actually respond to algorithmic pressure, digital surveillance, and enforced obsolescence

• The Zone of Disrupted Identity (ZDI): a framework for recognising identity drift before values are silenced or ethical direction is lost

• Human Scaffolding: a four-part system supporting ethical resilience, cognitive stability, emotional security, and identity integrity

• Global governance insight drawn from applied work across continents, offered without jargon or saviour narratives

• Creative resilience tools, including the Digital Twin Self, designed to help individuals and leaders reclaim agency in datafied environments

These are the frameworks Clarke-Joell has used in advisory, teaching, and governance contexts with governments, universities, and international organisations.

The long-term value of The Digital Polycrisis lies in its durability. It does not expire with the next technology cycle. It remains relevant because systems under pressure, and the human cost of managing them, do not disappear.

Written for leaders, educators, policymakers, and professionals who sense that something in the current