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Climate Change and Mental Health Education
Anthropogenic climate change and its planetary and human consequences constitute an evolving public health crisis. There is a debate about the identity of psychiatry and its proper roles. One question pertains to how much focus the profession should place on the evolving planetary crisis of climate change. Psychiatry’s role has been criticized as too narrow and even as overly reductionistic [2]. The two guest editors (A. M. B., J. C.), along with colleagues, recently presented our perspective on this debate and proposed that psychiatry’s identity is a necessarily broad and complex concept [3]. In this light, climate change is indeed an important part of psychiatrists’ agenda [3, 4]. Psychiatrists should support efforts to teach medical students [5] and residents [6] about the consequences of climate change for health and disease, as well as learn about the range of sciences and their methods that contribute to the understanding of climate change and its impacts. A special focus is to learn about how to prevent and ameliorate the psychological health impacts and to direct resources to these needs.
Editors
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John Coverdale, MD
John Coverdale, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy in Baylor College of Medicine.
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Andreea L. Seritan, MD
Dr. Andreea L. Seritan works at the University of California San Francisco. Seritan is a geriatric psychiatrist who specializes in treating patients with movement disorders and associated psychiatric symptoms. In addition to caring for patients and conducting research, Seritan supervises medical students, residents and fellows. She also provides psychiatric care for patients as they prepare for and recover from deep brain stimulation surgery to treat movement disorders.
Articles (13 in this collection)
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Perspectives on Climate Change and Pediatric Mental Health: a Qualitative Analysis of Interviews with Researchers in the Field
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Telehealth: Reducing Patients’ Greenhouse Gas Emissions at One Academic Psychiatry Department
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Climate Change and the Professional Obligation to Socialize Physicians and Trainees into an Environmentally Sustainable Medical Culture
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Reframing Climate Change: Using Children’s Literature as a Residency Training Tool to Address Climate Anxiety and Model Innovation
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The Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force: One Academic Psychiatry Department’s Efforts to Heed the Call to Action
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