ReviewEuropean psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists2024
Climate change and mental health: Position paper of the European Psychiatric Association.
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- Impacts of extreme temperatures on mood disorders: A systematic review.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Pooled it
- Preventive Interventions to Protect Homeless People with Major Mental Disorders from Climate-Related Emergencies: a Critically Important Yet Neglected Public Health Imperative.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 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
- Emotional Needs in the Face of Climate Change and Barriers for Pro-Environmental Behaviour in Dutch Young Adults: A Qualitative Exploration.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Mental health during and after the COVID-19 pandemic - a longitudinal study over 42 months in five European countries.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Mental health in Central and Eastern Europe: a comprehensive analysis.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2025Review
- Urban mental health: a position paper of the European psychiatric association.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Review
- Mental health status of the European population and its determinants: A cross-national comparison study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- European Psychiatry: 2024 in review.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- [Climate crisis and psychiatry].Der Nervenarzt · 2024Review
- [Planetary health and mental health].Der Nervenarzt · 2024Article
- Climate change and mental health: direct, indirect, and intersectional effects.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Article
- Planetary Health and Mental Health Nexus: Least Understood and Embraced in Policy Decisions.Annals of global health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundClimate change is one of the greatest threats to health that societies face and can adversely affect mental health. Given the current lack of a European consensus paper on the interplay between climate change and mental health, we signal a need for a pan-European position paper about this topic, written by stakeholders working in mental health care.
methodsOn behalf of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), we give recommendations to make mental health care, research, and education more sustainable based on a narrative review of the literature.
resultsExamples of sustainable mental healthcare comprise preventive strategies, interdisciplinary collaborations, evidence-based patient care, addressing social determinants of mental health, maintaining health services during extreme weather events, optimising use of resources, and sustainable facility management. In mental health research, sustainable strategies include investigating the impact of climate change on mental health, promoting research on climate change interventions, strengthening the evidence base for mental health-care recommendations, evaluating the allocation of research funding, and establishing evidence-based definitions and clinical approaches for emerging issues such as 'eco-distress'. Regarding mental health education, planetary health, which refers to human health and how it is intertwined with ecosystems, may be integrated into educational courses.
conclusionsThe EPA is committed to combat climate change as the latter poses a threat to the future of mental health care. The current EPA position paper on climate change and mental health may be of interest to a diverse readership of stakeholders, including clinicians, researchers, educators, patients, and policymakers.
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