Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change.
By S. Clayton. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2020
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Climate change will affect psychological wellbeing. Substantial research has documented harmful impacts on physical health, mental health, and social relations from exposure to extreme weather events that are associated with climate change. Recently, attention has turned to the possible effects of climate change on mental health through emotional responses such as increased anxiety. This paper discusses the nature of climate anxiety and some evidence for its existence, and speculates about ways to address it. Although climate anxiety appears to be a real phenomenon that deserves clinical attention, it is important to distinguish between adaptive and maladaptive levels of anxiety. A focus on individual mental health should not distract attention from the societal response that is necessary to address climate change.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science
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- Educating for resilience: parent and teacher perceptions of children’s emotional needs in response to climate change (2020, background): “…may “experience climate change vicariously through what they learn at school, from their families, or in the media (including social media)” (Sanson, Van Hoorn, and Burke 2019, 203), and climate anxiety detached from direct experiences of climate change is increasingly apparent (Clayton, 2020).”
- Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education (2020, background): “Then again, the leading author of the aforementioned APA report, experienced climate psychologist Susan Clayton, also herself argues that climate anxiety should not be regarded fundamentally as a problem, but instead an important sign that the individual cares about the state of the planet [7,42].”
- Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis: An Analysis of Eco-Anxiety and Climate Anxiety (2020, background): “However, these scholars still warned against pathologizing climate anxiety [13,35], as several others have also done [1,36].”