Climate Change and Mental Healthdoi:10.1001/jama.2024.1839CLIMATE change & healthThis JAMA Insights discusses the adverse effects of climate change on mental health and proposes solutions to help mitigate those effects.Clayton, SusanBrown, Lily A....
The health impacts of climate change are being increasingly recognized, but mental health is often excluded from this discussion. In this issue we feature a collection of articles on climate change and mental health that highlight important directions for future research. This is a preview of ...
Human well-being – indeed survival – is likely to be very limited if this world view does not change.” (Andrew Lyon and Maddy Halliday, 2005, Climate Change and Mental Health in the 21st Century, International Futures Forum) If we do not take urgent steps to reduce our greenhouse gas ...
The effect of climate change on mental health Dr. Joshua Wortzel weighs in the impact of climate change and environmental disasters on our mental health. August 9, 2023 Additional Live Streams Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live ...
Climate change has psychological impacts but most of the attention has been focused on the physical impact. This study was aimed at determining the association of climate change with adolescent mental health and suicidality as reported by Kenyan high school students. Methods This was a cross sectiona...
(Federal Health Gazette) that climate change does not just cause physical harm, but also can impose a mental burden. Even tackling the topic of climate change, which is perceived as a threat similar to terrorism and nuclear war, triggers anxiety, distress, anddepression, especially in young ...
Mental Health and our Changing Planet: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance (American Psychological Association, ecoAmerica, 2017). A key contribution examining, from a psychological perspective, the ways in which mental health will be challenged through climate change and resulting environmental ...
Climate change is having a negative impact on our health. And world leaders are missing their chance to step in, says a new report from the medical journal The Lancet. The Lancet report concludes climate change is hurting human health in a myriad of ways. ...
Awareness of the threats to mental health posed by climate change leads to questions about the potential impacts on climate scientists because they are immersed in depressing information and may face apathy, denial and even hostility from others. But they also have sources of resilience. This is ...
However, to truly fight the intersecting crises of climate and mental health, we need other people. My own research showed that people drew the most strength from being in the community and realising that they’re not alone with their feelings. Community is where the spark of resistance is bo...