Climate change and mental health: risks, impacts and priority actions
By K. Hayes, G. Blashki, J. Wiseman, S. Burke, L. Reifels. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2018
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BackgroundThis article provides an overview of the current and projected climate change risks and impacts to mental health and provides recommendations for priority actions to address the mental health consequences of climate change.Discussion and conclusionThe authors argue the following three points: firstly, while attribution of mental health outcomes to specific climate change risks remains challenging, there are a number of opportunities available to advance the field of mental health and climate change with more empirical research in this domain; secondly, the risks and impacts of climate change on mental health are already rapidly accelerating, resulting in a number of direct, indirect, and overarching effects that disproportionally affect those who are most marginalized; and, thirdly, interventions to address climate change and mental health need to be coordinated and rooted in active hope in order to tackle the problem in a holistic manner. This discussion paper concludes with recommendations for priority actions to address the mental health consequences of climate change.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Citations in the corpus
- Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective (2022, background): “This is due to the diverse nature of such impacts, and because attribution studies typically consider one aspect of the causal chain (climate-meteorological event or meteorological event-mental health impacts), not both (Hayes et al 2018).”
- Bearing worlds: learning to live-with climate change (2019, background): “When people engage with climate change they can experience a wide range of intense emotions (Hayes et al. 2018; Clayton and Manning 2018; Davenport 2017), and therefore many people engage in denial, apathy or disengagement as a coping mechanism (Kristin and Dilshani 2018).”
- Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis: An Analysis of Eco-Anxiety and Climate Anxiety (2020, background): “More studies on the mental health impacts of climate change were published [17].”
- Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education (2020, background): “A major research area focuses on psychological and mental health impacts of climate change [37,38,40,64,65].”