The impact of climate change on mental health and emotional wellbeing: a narrative review of current evidence, and its implications

EL Lawrance, R Thompson… - … Review of Psychiatry, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Converging global evidence highlights the dire consequences of climate change for human
mental health and wellbeing. This paper summarises literature across relevant disciplines to …

The process of eco-anxiety and ecological grief: A narrative review and a new proposal

P Pihkala - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
As the ecological crisis grows more intense, people experience many forms of eco-anxiety
and ecological grief. This article explores the broad process of encountering eco-anxiety …

Toward a taxonomy of climate emotions

P Pihkala - Frontiers in climate, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There is a growing evidence that emotions shape people's reactions to the climate crisis in
profound but complex ways. Climate emotions are related to resilience, climate action, and …

[HTML][HTML] Climate anxiety: Conceptual considerations, and connections with climate hope and action

J Sangervo, KM Jylhä, P Pihkala - Global Environmental Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate anxiety is a phenomenon which raises growing attention. Based on a national
survey of climate-related feelings and behaviors (N= 2070) in Finland, we analyzed and …

[HTML][HTML] The psychological consequences of the ecological crisis: Three new questionnaires to assess eco-anxiety, eco-guilt, and ecological grief

C Ágoston, R Urban, B Nagy, B Csaba, Z Kőváry… - Climate risk …, 2022 - Elsevier
As climate change develops reactions such as eco-anxiety, eco-guilt and ecological grief
are becoming increasingly common. Our aim was to develop questionnaires to assess these …

Talking about climate change and eco-anxiety in psychotherapy: A qualitative analysis of patients' experiences.

M Budziszewska, SE Jonsson - Psychotherapy, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Citizens' worries about climate change are often realistic and legitimate. Simultaneously,
these worries can also become a source of distress so severe as to impair everyday …

Climate-sensitive health counselling: a scoping review and conceptual framework

C Quitmann, S Griesel, PN Schwerdtle… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Health professional societies and researchers call for the integration of climate change into
health counselling. However, the scientific evidence and conceptual grounding of such …

Climate anxiety: A research agenda inspired by emotion research

AM van Valkengoed, L Steg, P de Jonge - Emotion Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Climate anxiety refers to persistent, difficult-to-control apprehensiveness and worry about
climate change. Research to better understand the prevalence, indicators, causes, and …

A meta-analysis on the relationship between climate anxiety and wellbeing

T Gago, RJ Sargisson, TL Milfont - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate anxiety refers to the negative emotional reactions that a person can experience in
response to climate change irrespective of prior direct experience with it. Research suggests …

The relationality of ecological emotions: An interdisciplinary critique of individual resilience as psychology's response to the climate crisis

W Kałwak, V Weihgold - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
An increasing number of academic papers, newspaper articles, and other media
representations from all over the world recently bring climate change's impact on mental …