Research and resources, shaped by those doing the work

UK-based youth research and campaigning organisation. Surveyed 1,400 students aged 11-18 across the UK, finding climate change remains a major concern but many young people hold back from taking action for fear of peer reaction or lack of school support; calls for climate education embedded across the curriculum and greater school support for student-led environmental action.

US-based network producing reports and guidelines on climate mental health informed by work with young people and their educators.

Campaigns to have the climate crisis properly regarded as a safeguarding issue; provides resources for professionals and parents supporting children with the psychological impacts of climate breakdown.

Part of the British Psychoanalytic Council's climate change special issue, exploring the emotional and organisational dynamics facing people who work in organisations engaging the public on climate change.

ABSTRACT (Open Access, CC BY 4.0): Climate change is already having unequal effects on the mental health of individuals and communities and will increasingly compound pre-existing mental health inequalities globally. Psychiatrists have a vital part to play in improving both awareness and scientific understanding of structural mechanisms that perpetuate these inequalities, and in responding to global calls for action to promote climate justice and resilience, which are central foundations for good mental and physical health. The authors highlight the interconnectedness of inequality, climate and ecological destruction, and adverse mental health outcomes, and propose a model for mental health practice and research that promotes climate justice and resilience.

ABSTRACT: The disarmingly innocuous term 'climate change' expresses a psychosocial defense mechanism that prompts us to recoil when we consider the implications of climate science. When viewed honestly through the lens of traumatology, this deepening existential crisis presents an entirely new, unprecedented, and higher-order category of trauma: Climate Trauma. What is unique about this category of trauma is that it is an ever-present, ever-growing threat to the biosphere, one that calls into question our shared identity: what does it mean to be 'human' in the Anthropocene? Because it is superordinate, Climate Trauma is continually triggering all past traumas - personal, cultural, and intergenerational - and will continue to do so until such time as it is acknowledged.