The clinical implications of climate change for mental health

Crandon, Tara J.; Dey, Cybele; Scott, James G.; Thomas, Hannah J.; Ali, Suhailah; Charlson, Fiona J

doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01477-6

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“…Climate change also negatively affects mental health, with detrimental impacts already being observed on outcomes such as anxiety, depression, acute traumatic stress, PTSD, suicide, substance abuse, and sleep problems (IPCC, 2022a;Minor et al, 2022). Negative effects on mental health from climatic events such as extreme heat, storms, or wildfires are exacerbated by existing vulnerabilities, such as socio-economic inequities, gender, and age with low-income households, women, and younger people being disproportionately affected (Crandon et al, 2022). The societal destabilisation resulting from climatic hazards will likely further exacerbate these mental health effects and the inequities in existing vulnerabilities.…”

Section: Climate Change Is a Health Emergencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These are significant and valid concerns, and it has been argued that exposing young people to this level of long-term and potentially inescapable stress is inhumane, unjust, and amounts to moral injury (Hickman et al, 2021). Health psychologists can act on this by acknowledging young people's fears and experiences, placing the root causes of these experiences centrally in their teaching and research, and exert influence in policy making and organisations to push for more significant climate action (Crandon et al, 2022;Gardner et al, 2021).…”

Section: Addressing Climate Change In Teachingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis

Papies¹,

Nielsen²,

Soares³

2023

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Climate change is an ongoing and escalating health emergency. It threatens the health and wellbeing of billions of people, through extreme weather events, displacement, food insecurity, pathogenic diseases, societal destabilisation, and armed conflict. Climate change dwarfs all other challenges studied by health psychologists. The greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change disproportionately originate from the actions of wealthy populations in the Global North and are tied to excessive energy use and overconsumption driven by the pursuit of economic growth. Addressing this crisis requires significant societal transformations and individual behaviour change. Most of these changes will benefit not only the stability of the climate but will yield significant public health co-benefits. Because of their unique expertise and skills, health psychologists are urgently needed in crafting climate change mitigation responses. We propose specific ways in which health psychologists at all career stages can contribute, within the spheres of research, teaching, and policy making, and within organisations and as private citizens. As health psychologists, we cannot sit back and leave climate change to climate scientists. Climate change is a health emergency that results from human behaviour; hence it is in our power to address it.

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Section: Climate Change Is a Health Emergencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Addressing Climate Change In Teachingmentioning

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Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis

Papies¹,

Nielsen²,

Soares³

2023

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“…European countries are currently confronted with various crises, some of which require massive individual and societal adaptations: the Covid 19 pandemic, the Russian-Ukrainian war, climate change, and an economic burden. Each of these stressors is associated with negative consequences for mental health [1][2][3]. In a recent study conducted in a representative German sample in spring 2022, our group disentangled the impact of current population stressors on subclinical stress symptoms [4].…”

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confidence: 96%

Results of a follow-up survey on "Russian-Ukrainian war, climate change, Covid-19, and economic worries in relation to current stress symptoms in the general public in Germany."

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Population stressors, such as the Covid 19 pandemic, climate change, the Russian-Ukrainian war, or a tense economic situation, are putting a strain on the well-being and mental health of Western populations. To examine the impact of such stressors, our group has recently published a study on the impact of current crises on subclinical stress symptoms in the German population. This short communication utilizes data from the latest second wave of this study. It evaluates, as to whether the results from the first study are still valid for the current and rapid changes in these population stressors. As in the first wave, the Russian-Ukrainian war was still rated as the most worrisome. However, the burden of the Covid 19 pandemic remains the most important predictor for subclinical stress symptoms.

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“…As many current funding announcements emphasize DEI in the proposal, ARPA-H can make DEI statements mandatory. Lastly, I encourage the ARPA-H to collaborate with other agencies to solve global health problems related to the climate crisis, social inequality, and economic instability …”

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“…Lastly, I encourage the ARPA-H to collaborate with other agencies to solve global health problems related to the climate crisis, social inequality, and economic instability. 15…”

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SynHEAL: Synthesis of Health Equity, Advancement, and Leadership

Moon

2023

ACS Synth. Biol.

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ARPA-H recently started its operation with a great vision and potential to revolutionize the biomedical field and research. To help them shape the future biomedical field and community and to make the biotechnology community aware of this new, exciting funding agency, I share my vision after collecting many comments and opinions from researchers, policymakers, journal editors, and funding agency directors. As DARPA has made huge impacts on science, engineering, and society, ARPA-H will do so by paying attention to and implementing stakeholders' suggestions. I also suggest that the biotechnology community members, including academic researchers, people in the biotechnology industry, and policymakers, should nurture innovation and diversity.

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The clinical implications of climate change for mental health

Cited by 33 publications

References 76 publications

Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis

Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis

Results of a follow-up survey on "Russian-Ukrainian war, climate change, Covid-19, and economic worries in relation to current stress symptoms in the general public in Germany."

SynHEAL: Synthesis of Health Equity, Advancement, and Leadership

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