Our House Is on Fire: Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in the Era of the Climate Crisis
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The global climate crisis has arrived and is impacting pediatric mental health in the form of children facing more frequent and severe weather-related trauma, experiencing climate-related deprivation and displacement, and experiencing anxiety and grief related to inevitable losses to come. Child and adolescent psychiatrists must respond: we are care providers to individuals and families in distress; we are contributors to the crisis through our own emissions; and we are potential mediators of the crisis, somewhat uniquely, as we work to instill agency and hope.
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Various health professionals have already outlined ways to address mental health problems related to climate change within clinical practice and broader policy.
“Various health professionals, including nurses [108], emergency department clinicians [109,110], clinical psychologists, and psychiatrists [111,112], have already outlined ways to address mental health problems related to climate change within clinical practice and broader policy, highlighting the strong willingness to act in the medical community.”
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- Authors
- Pinsky, E., Guerrero, A. P. S., & Livingston, R.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (US)
- Corresponding author
- Pinsky, Elizabeth
- Venue
- Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-05
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 580-582
- ISSN
- 0890-8567 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3020559267
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Keywords
- climate crisis, child mental health, child and adolescent psychiatry, climate-induced displacement, grief, anxiety, climate change mitigation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety, Child, Family, Grief, Humans, Mental Health, Psychiatry
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