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Sources: Climate Change and Mental Health

  1. Leiserowitz, A Maibach, E Rosenthal, S Kotcher, J Bergquist, P Ballew, M Goldberg, M Gustafson, A. (2019, December 17). Climate Change in the American Mind: November 2019. Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-november-2019/
  2. Clayton, S., Manning, C. M., Speiser, M., & Hill, A. N. (2021, October 28). Mental Health and Our Changing Climate, 2021 edition. EcoAmerica. https://ecoamerica.org/mental-health-and-our-changing-climate-2021-edition/
  3. Ibid
  4. Ibid
  5. Nynas, J., Narang, P., Kolikonda, M. K., & Lippmann, S. (2015). Depression and anxiety following early pregnancy loss: Recommendations for primary care providers. The Primary Care Companion to CNS Disorders, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.4088/PCC.14r01721
  6. Ingle, H.E. & Mikulewicz, M. (2020). Mental health and climate change: tackling invisible injustice. The Lancet. Planetary Health, 4(4), e128-e130. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30081-4
  1. Clayton, S., Manning, C. M., Speiser, M., & Hill, A. N. (2021, October 28). Mental Health and Our Changing Climate, 2021 edition. EcoAmerica. https://ecoamerica.org/mental-health-and-our-changing-climate-2021-edition/
  2. Hickman C., Marks, E., Pihkala, P., Clayton, S., Lewandowski, R.E., Mayall, E.E., Wray, B., Mellor, C., & van Susteren, L. (2021). Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey. The Lancet. Planetary Health, 5(12), e863-e873. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00278-3
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