What is it about?
Digital innovations offer versatile solutions to mitigate climate-related mental health challenges. Integrating digital solutions into climate-related mental health care requires addressing ethical concerns to ensure the development of inclusive and sustainable interventions that benefit all communities equitably.
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Why is it important?
The intersecting challenges of climate change and mental health have emerged as critical issues facing global society. In response to these growing concerns, digital tools have emerged as a promising approach to reduce the mental health toll of climate change. This article explores how digital tools can play a transformative role in supporting mental health amid a changing climate.
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I hope this article sheds light on the consequences of climate change to mental health, as well as the potential to leverage digital tools to promote community resilience and reduce climate-related health burdens.
McKenna Parnes
University of Washington
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This page is a summary of: Digital Mental Health Innovations in the Face of Climate Change: Navigating a Sustainable Future, Psychiatric Services, November 2024, American Psychiatric Association,
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.20240327.
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