ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2022
Report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change: implications for the mental health policy of children and adolescents in Europe-a scoping review.
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- Impact of Climate Change on Adolescents' Health Outcomes: An Evidence Gap Map Review.Journal of adolescence · 2025Pooled it
- Positive Youth Development in the Context of Climate Change: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
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- Building Youth Capacity for Climate-Health Science: Lessons From Implementing The DataJam in Jordan.GeoHealth · 2026Article
- Association between climate change awareness-related psychological distress and mental health in people with psychiatric diagnoses or subclinical symptoms: a scoping review.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Article
- University students in the era of climate change: climate distress is associated with academic burnout and engagement through academic amotivation.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Global adolescent self-harm (10-19 years): 1990-2021 trends, health inequalities, frontier analysis, and 2035 projections using global burden of disease data.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Conceptualizing Young People's Experiences of Climate Change Awareness: A Narrative Review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Addressing youths' climate change-related distress: a qualitative study on the experience of burden, triggering and protective factors.BMJ mental health · 2025Article
- Climate Anxiety in Perspective: A Look at Dominant Stressors in Youth Mental Health and Sleep.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Child-focused climate change and health content in medical schools and pediatric residencies.Pediatric research · 2025Review
- Youth suicidality risk relative to ambient temperature and heatwaves across climate zones: A time series analysis of emergency department presentations in New South Wales, Australia.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Behavioral moderators ofFrontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the climate anxiety scale in Spanish-speaking adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of temperature changes on the health vulnerability of migrant workers: an empirical study based on the China family panel studies.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Exploring the effects of climate change on child malnutrition: protocol for a scoping review.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Climate Change Challenge Faced by Italian Children: A Nationwide Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Exploring the Nexus of Climate Change and Substance Abuse: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Opportunities and challenges for financing women's, children's and adolescents' health in the context of climate change.BMJ global health · 2024Review
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Abstract
Climate change is a worldwide challenge. Its consequences do encompass severe threats not only for the existence and somatic health, but also for the mental health of children and adolescents. Mental health can be impaired by three types of consequences. Direct consequences of climate change, such as natural disasters and indirect consequences, such as loss of land, flight and migration, exposure to violence, change of social, ecological, economic or cultural environment. Moreover, the increasing awareness of the existential dimension of climate change in children and adolescents can influence their well-being or challenge their mental health. Consequences of climate change for somatic health may interact with mental health or have psychological sequelae in children and adolescents. Based on the estimates by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we have summarized current data on these differential pathways as to how climate change affects the mental health of children worldwide through selective literature research on Pubmed. Mental health sequelae of direct and indirect consequences of climate change, increased awareness and physical health problems caused by climate change are presented. We give insights into special vulnerabilities of children and adolescents and identify high-risk groups. As the "Fridays for Future" movement has been initiated in northern Europe, we will discuss these results with a focus on children and adolescents in Europe. The results indicate that climate change is a serious threat to children and adolescent mental health. Children´s rights, mental health and climate change should not continue to be seen as separate points; instead, they need to be brought together to address this major challenge determining the future of our children and their descendants.
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