#mhTV episode 125 - Eco-anxiety: climate change affects our mental health – here’s how to cope

Welcome to episode 125 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 24 May 2023] of #mhTV​​​​​​​​. This week Nicky Lambert and Vanessa Gilmartin spoke with guest Matt Adams about 'Eco-anxiety: climate change affects our mental health – here’s how to cope'. MA: Matt is a Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Brighton. His research interests include human-nature and human-animal relations, especially in the context of the climate crisis and the Anthropocene. He currently teaches courses on ecopsychology and ecotherapy, and the psychology of human-animal relations, and supervises doctoral research across a range of related topics. His most recent book is Anthropocene Psychology: Being Human in a More-Than-Human World (Routledge, 2020). Some links to follow are: - Eco-anxiety: climate change affects our mental health – here’s how to cope (The Conversation): https://theconversation.com/eco-anxiety-climate-change-affects-our-mental-health-heres-how-to-cope-202477 - Neighbourhood green space is in rapid decline, deepening both the climate and mental health crises (The Conversation): https://theconversation.com/neighbourhood-green-space-is-in-rapid-decline-deepening-both-the-climate-and-mental-health-crises-183389 - Senator Throws Snowball In Senate | Overheard On The Hill | msnbc: https://youtu.be/NxU55cEamc0 - Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey (The Lancet Planetary Health): https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00278-3/fulltext - Experience the Great Outdoors, From Prison (Opinion, NY Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/opinion/blue-room-prison.html - How can we help kids cope with 'eco-anxiety'? (BBC Future): https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220315-how-eco-anxiety-affects-childrens-minds Some Twitter links to follow are: VG - www.twitter.com/VanessaRNMH NL - www.twitter.com/niadla​​​​​​​​ DM - www.twitter.com/davidamunday MA - www.twitter.com/mattadams0 Credits: #mhTV Presenters