by Bill Sheate

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 so-called ‘climate emotions’ toward 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….. [Read more]