ReviewClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2022
Climate Change and Children's Mental Health: A Developmental Perspective.
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- Public health challenges of climate change-induced non-communicable diseases in vulnerable populations and resource-limited healthcare system: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Heat, menstruation, and mental health in adolescence and young adulthood: Understudied in climate-health research.Dialogues in health · 2026Review
- Prenatal and Early Childhood Ambient Heat Exposure and Developmental Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Review
- Changes in resource insecurity, sexual and mental health among young women after Kenya's 2024 heavy rains and floods.International health · 2026Article
- Pediatric Health at the Crossroads of Climate Change, Food Insecurity, and Malnutrition.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Revisiting 'environmental effects': Directions for multidisciplinary investigations of air quality and psychopathology.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
- Adolescent Worries About Societal Challenges: Changing Associations With Internalizing Symptoms, 1977-2021.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Climate change and youth development: A view of an emerging field.International journal of behavioral development · 2026Review
- [The silent impact of climate change on our mental health: Anxiety and stress in a changing world].Atencion primaria · 2026Article
- Climate informed precision health.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Classroom temperatures in urban and rural classrooms: disparities that hinder a just energy transition and opportunities for interventions.The Pan African medical journal · 2026Observational
- When digital engagement meets climate concern: hopelessness as an indirect link between digital addiction and eco-anxiety in adolescents.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
- A review of early childhood psychosocial interventions following extreme weather events in low- and middle-income countries.Perspectives in public health · 2025Review
- Exploring support systems for young people with climate anxiety: Suggestions from Brazil.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Extreme weather and climate-related adverse childhood experiences are a humanitarian crisis during the 21st century.Communications medicine · 2025Review
- A Critical Gap in Addressing Mental Health in Heat-Health Action Plans Worldwide.Current environmental health reports · 2025Review
- A call for mixed-methods research on climate change, family systems and child mental health.BMJ paediatrics open · 2025Article
- Psychological impacts of climate change on US youth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Nurturing care as a critical buffer against climate change impacts on child development.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Climate change is a major global public-health challenge that will have wide-ranging impacts on human psychological health and well-being. Children and adolescents are at particular risk because of their rapidly developing brain, vulnerability to disease, and limited capacity to avoid or adapt to threats and impacts. They are also more likely to worry about climate change than any other age group. Drawing on a developmental life-course perspective, we show that climate-change-related threats can additively, interactively, and cumulatively increase psychopathology risk from conception onward; that these effects are already occurring; and that they constitute an important threat to healthy human development worldwide. We then argue that monitoring, measuring, and mitigating these risks is a matter of social justice and a crucial long-term investment in developmental and mental health sciences. We conclude with a discussion of conceptual and measurement challenges and outline research priorities going forward.
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