Welcome to the Mental Elf podcast, which features interviews with leading experts in mental health: researchers, clinicians, practitioners and experts by experience.
I will help you keep up to date with the latest reliable mental health research.
Our podcasts are recorded at major mental health events and conferences, and explore a wide range of topics relevant to people who work in mental health and related fields.
Check out the Mental Elf website for thousands of free blogs summarising the latest reliable mental health research.
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Welcome to the Mental Elf podcast, which features interviews with leading experts in mental health: researchers, clinicians, practitioners and experts by experience.
I will help you keep up to date with the latest reliable mental health research.
Our podcasts are recorded at major mental health events and conferences, and explore a wide range of topics relevant to people who work in mental health and related fields.
Check out the Mental Elf website for thousands of free blogs summarising the latest reliable mental health research.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
As climate change accelerates, so does the mental distress it causes. In this episode, we interview Dr. Elizabeth Marks and Dr. Kris De Meyer to explore the critical intersection between mental health and climate change.
We discuss eco-anxiety - the difficult emotions caused by direct or indirect exposure to climate change - and consider to what extent such emotions should be considered a clinical disorder. We also explore the unequal burden of climate change across populations and how fear-based climate messaging can be unhelpful. The episode goes on to suggest strategies for addressing both climate change and mental health, such as the benefits of 'action-based storytelling’ and the potential of individual agency and collective action to confront these challenges in an uncertain and changing world.
00:00 Introduction
02:00 What is eco-anxiety?
04:54 Inequalities in impact of climate change
07:25 Media messaging around climate change
12:04 What can we do in response to climate change?
19:42 Conclusion
Dr. Elizabeth Marks
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Bath
Deputy Director, Bath Centre for Mindfulness and Community
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/elizabeth-marks
Dr. Kris De Meyer
Research Fellow, King’s College London Department of Neuroimaging
Visiting Lecturer, King’s College London, Department of Geography
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/kris-de-meyer
Director, University College London Climate Action Unit
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-action-unit/how-we-work
This podcast was produced by a group of PhD students from UCL. Huge thanks from the Mental Elf to the podcast team (in alphabetical order):
Alex Martin, PhD student, University College London
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmartin111/
Annabelle Olsson, PhD student, University College London
https://www.linkedin.com/in/annabelle-eveline-olsson-806b2214a/
Jasmine Lee (Presenter), PhD student, University College London
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmineleecy/
Jehanita Jesuthasan, PhD student, University College London
https://linkedin.com/in/jehanita-jesuthasan-0321851a3
Oliwia Stecko, PhD student, University College London
https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliwia-stecko
Ritika Chokhani, PhD student, University College London
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritika-chokhani
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