[Climate change and mental health. Position paper of a task force of the DGPPN].

ABSTRACT: Climate change and the resulting higher frequency of extreme weather events have a direct negative impact on mental health. Natural disasters are particularly associated with an increase in the prevalence of depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder. Indirect consequences of climate change, such as food shortages, economic crises, violent conflicts and forced migration, additionally represent severe psychological risk and stress factors. Climate anxiety and solastalgia, the distress induced by environmental change, are new psychological syndromes in the face of the existential threat posed by the climate crisis. Accordingly, a sustainable psychiatry must prepare for increasing and changing demands. The principles of psychiatric treatment need to focus more on prevention to redu

SUBMITTER: Heinz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9992044 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature