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ReviewFrontiers in public health2026

From individual coping to collective resilience: reframing mental health responses to global crises through geopsychiatry.

Julio Torales, Lairtes Chaves Rodrigues Filho, Gladys Estigarribia, Iván Barrios, Marcelo O'Higgins, Antonio Ventriglio, João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Julio ToralesFacultad de Ciencias Médicas, Grupo de Investigación sobre Epidemiología de los Trastornos Mentales, Psicopatología y Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay.
Lairtes Chaves Rodrigues FilhoFacultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Grupo de Investigación en Comunicación, Salud Mental y Humanidades Médicas, Universidad Interamericana, Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay.
Gladys EstigarribiaFacultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Grupo de Investigación en Comunicación, Salud Mental y Humanidades Médicas, Universidad Interamericana, Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay.
Iván BarriosFacultad de Ciencias Médicas, Grupo de Investigación sobre Epidemiología de los Trastornos Mentales, Psicopatología y Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay.
Marcelo O'HigginsFacultad de Ciencias Médicas, Grupo de Investigación sobre Epidemiología de los Trastornos Mentales, Psicopatología y Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay.
Antonio VentriglioDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
João Mauricio Castaldelli-MaiaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global crises are reshaping the conditions under which mental health is produced, threatened, protected, and restored. Pandemics, climate change, armed conflict, forced migration, political instability, economic insecurity, disasters, and digital disruption do not affect mental health only through individual stress reactions or discrete traumatic exposures. They also transform the social, territorial, institutional, ecological, and symbolic environments in which people interpret threat, seek support, access care, maintain hope, and imagine the future. This Conceptual Analysis reframes mental health responses to global crises by moving from an individual-centered model of coping toward a geopsychiatric understanding of collective resilience. We synthesize and extend published conceptual and empirical literature on global mental health, social determinants, disaster psychiatry, community resilience, emotional engagement, collective coping, climate-related distress, migration, structural violence, syndemics, digital environments, and geopsychiatry. We argue that resilience in global crises is not only a psychological capacity located within individuals, but also a collective, territorial, cultural, institutional, digital, and political process. The proposed geopsychiatric model links global crises to mental health outcomes through multilevel pathways involving individuals, relationships, communities, territories, institutions, digital ecosystems, and planetary systems. Emotional engagement, social meaning, institutional trust, access to resources, recognition, and collective efficacy are presented as mediating processes through which crises may either fragment communities or mobilize collective protection. This framework has implications for public mental health, policy, and care systems, suggesting that effective crisis responses should strengthen community supports, trusted communication, social protection, culturally meaningful care, digital responsibility, and climate- and crisis-resilient health systems. Collective resilience should therefore be understood not as a private duty, but as a geopsychiatric condition shaped by relationships between people, places, institutions, ecologies, and futures.

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Adaptation, PsychologicalGlobal HealthMental HealthResilience, PsychologicalClimate ChangeCoping SkillsHumanscollective copingcollective resilienceemotional engagementgeopsychiatryglobal crisespublic mental healthsocial determinants of mental health

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PMID42620208
PMCPMC13485533

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