Integrating mental health into climate change education to inspire climate action while safeguarding mental health

Journal article

My project is a co-created 6 part podcast series with youth and the program lead from the Climate Mental Health Network’s Gen Z Advisory Board informed by affective climate justice, youth, mental health and education. This work foregrounds the embodied climate knowing and being of youth climate activists, offers ideas for a different relationship to climate change and climate education futures. In this podcast, Gen Zers speak to the youth mental health crisis as it relates to climate. My thesis project engages with and invites conversations that reflect the climate itself, which is non-linear, complex, porous, creative, expansive, and woven through our everyday worlds (Verlie, 2022). The project offers a contribution to the climate story and to the emerging field of climate mental health and Gen Z climate emotions. This project does not offer neat climate solutions but welcomes in the active becoming of thinking and sharing out loud together as climate beings in a climate changed and changing world

Authors: Newberry Le Vay, J; Cunningham, A; Soul, L; Dave, H; Hoath, L

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Frontiers Media
• Journal: Frontiers in Psychology
• Volume: 14
• Pages: 1298623-1298623
• Article number: 1298623
• Publication date: 2024-01-08
• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1298623
• EISSN: 1664-1078
• ISSN: 1664-1078
• Language: English
• Keywords: Medicine; Climate change; Mental health; Psychology; Action (physics); Psychiatry; Safeguarding; Ecology; Nursing; Applied psychology