ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
The Interplay between Social and Ecological Determinants of Mental Health for Children and Youth in the Climate Crisis.
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- Psychiatry in transition: an assessment in the context of societal change.Annals of general psychiatry · 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
- Conceptualizing Young People's Experiences of Climate Change Awareness: A Narrative Review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Eco-Anxiety and Mental Health: Correlates of Climate Change Distress.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Eating disorders and eco-anxiety: exploring mental health challenges in university students.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Environmental Distress Among Dutch Young Adults: Worried Minds or Indifferent Hearts?EcoHealth · 2025Article
- The ClimaQ Study: Exploring Parental Accounts of Climate Crisis-Related Emotional Responses, Awareness, and Engagement in Actions Among Children in Greece.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Climate Formulation: Addressing Climate Change in Mental Health Practice.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2025Article
- Towards a unified conceptual framework of eco-anxiety: mapping eco-anxiety through a scoping review.Cogent mental health · 2025Review
- The role of climate change anxiety in shaping childrearing intentions among people living in British Columbia.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Addressing the psychological impact of climate-induced disasters on young people in Africa: Challenges and pathways forward.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Review
- Canadian adolescents' perceptions of how climate change is impacting their mental health: A qualitative analysis of open-ended survey responses.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Measuring Eco-Anxiety with the Polish Version of the 13-Item Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (HEAS-13): Latent Structure, Correlates, and Psychometric Performance.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Children and youth are showing increasing levels of mental health distress due to the climate crisis, characterized by feelings of sadness, guilt, changes in sleep and appetite, difficulty concentrating, solastalgia, and disconnection from land. To gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between climate change and children and youth's mental health, we conducted a rapid review and a thematic analysis of the results in NVivo 12. Our findings show that children and youth experience a plethora of direct and indirect effects from climate change and this impacts their mental wellbeing in diverse and complex ways. Young people also have varied perceptions of climate change based on their social locations and many are dealing with feelings of immense worry and eco-anxiety. The mental health impacts of climate change on children/youth are tied to Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) but also need to be understood in relation to the Ecological Determinants of Health (EDoH). Through an eco-social lens, this paper explores these conceptual issues and uses them to provide a framework for understanding the interplay of social and ecological determinants of mental health for children/youth.
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