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Climate Change and Children's Mental Health: A Developmental Perspective.

Francis Vergunst^1,2, Helen L Berry^3,4

¹Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal.

Clinical Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science

|July 18, 2022

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Climate change significantly impacts child and adolescent mental health, increasing psychopathology risk from early development. Addressing these risks is vital for social justice and future mental health research.

Keywords:

administrative data birth cohort climate change developmental psychopathology disasters global warming inequality long term psychiatry

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Area of Science:

Environmental health
Developmental psychology
Public health

Background:

Climate change poses a significant global public health threat with broad psychological impacts.
Children and adolescents are uniquely vulnerable due to developmental factors and limited coping capacities.
This age group exhibits heightened anxiety regarding climate change.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the impact of climate change on the psychological health of children and adolescents.
To analyze the developmental trajectory of climate change-related mental health risks.
To advocate for the monitoring, measurement, and mitigation of these risks.

Main Methods:

Utilizing a developmental life-course perspective.
Analyzing additive, interactive, and cumulative effects of climate-change threats.
Reviewing existing evidence on psychopathology risk from conception onward.

Main Results:

Climate change-related threats increase psychopathology risk across the lifespan, starting from conception.
These adverse effects are currently observable and impact healthy human development globally.
Children and adolescents face disproportionately higher risks due to their developmental stage.

Conclusions:

Climate change represents a critical threat to worldwide child and adolescent mental health and development.
Mitigating these risks is essential for social justice and advancing developmental and mental health sciences.
Further research is needed to address conceptual and measurement challenges in this field.