Just published in PLOS Mental Health is my new paper Re-framing eco-distress for self-efficacy and resilience building. The paper proposes a re-framing of eco-distress from being framed principally as a unique set of emotional responses to the climate crisis to being one of many factors contributing to and affected by the current public mental health crisis. The emphasis can then shift from a focus on ‘climate emotions’ towards building greater self-efficacy and resilience skills more generally, especially among young people, so that they are better able to cope with the multiple factors contributing to declining public mental health, including climate and environmental change.
The paper is available on Open Access at https://journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmen.0000563
Citation: Sheate B (2026) Re-framing eco-distress for self-efficacy and resilience building. PLOS Ment Health 3(2): e0000563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000563
Bill Sheate, 20 February 2026