CLIMATE. YOUTH. GRIEF. EVOLUTION.
Annotated Bibliography
Source One: Hayes, Katie, et al. “Climate Change and Mental Health: Risks, Impacts and Priority Actions.” International Journal of Mental Health Systems, vol. 12, no. 1, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-018-0210-6.
In summation, this source explores broad themes of focus. The first one is how they address the currently increasing impacts that climate change is having on people’s mental health, and how it's hurting people from multiple sides of life. Within this exploration of mental health effects, they also make sure to highlight the effects it has on marginalized groups and the ways it compares to more privileged groups. And the second theme they overview the ways in which climate change affects physical life on the planet which in turn affects people in the negative sense of the way on a mental health level. Following this they recommended specifically curated interventions and solutions on a broader scale to address this. In assessment and reflection of this source I found this to be helpful when I was starting out my project journey as it not only overviewed climate change for me as its own entity, but it addressed exactly how physical changes due to climate change affect people's mental health. It also addressed one of the biggest problems within mental health and climate change, and that's the disproportionate effects it has on marginalized communities. This scholarly source gave me a solid and wide basis to learn from and then work off of that I needed to see before jumping on this journey of exploring healing and grief in connection to climate anxiety. I will use this in my podcast to start off the overall talk of healing I will get into.
Source Two: Lawrance, E, et al. “The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing: Current Evidence and Implications for Policy and Practice.” Imperial College London, 13 May 2021, spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/88568.
Within this particular scholarly paper I received a very layered and comprehensive start to finish analysis of climate change and mental health, alongside evidence of it and overviews of policy and change. This paper presents developing visuals as they build on the points that they are creating, allowing readers to see the ways in which climate change expands out its reach through just the core impacts we tend to hear about most. They also cover the solutions they recommend for researchers and innovators, policymakers, and healthcare practitioners and leaders within healthcare. Personally for me, what I took most from this paper in reflection of my project, was the specific recommendations they made to reduce emotional suffering among people in connection to climate grief and anxiety. It was helpful to see their detailed ideas to specific groups within this situation, but even more so to see insights for the individual average person. I will definitely be taking out what I have learned solution wise from this paper and apply it to my podcasts section of advice within this time of climate anxiety.
Source Three: Ma, Tianyi, et al. “Climate Change Impacts on the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People: A Scoping Review of Risk and Protective Factors.” Social Science & Medicine, vol. 301, May 2022, p. 114888, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114888.
Within this scholarly paper Tianyi Ma and additional author contributors have aimed to discuss in what ways mental health among young people have been directly influenced by the looming inevitability of climate change. Their exploration includes assessing and understanding the risk factors, as well as the protective factors within the realm of climate anxiety in relation to young people and their welfare. They studied studies relating to the impact that climate change has on the mental health of people under 24 years of age, and collected/contrasted the data they found in order to create a clearer understanding of risks and most productive protective factors. This led them to create a conclusionary summation of collected evidence that allowed them to present findings that helps us as readers inform ourselves on the best routes of action when attempting to understand and take action within ourselves to better our climate grief. In assessment of this source I believe this has become a vital part of my research to better understand not only solutions to climate anxiety but increasing my scope of comprehension when it comes to more overlooked risk factors within young individuals. This gives me a different perspective than previous sources listed as I am able to better discern between population ages and types, and get a more specific understanding of young people in particular in the discussion of climate change anxiety and grief. This is something that will take up a chunk of the podcast as I will be coming from the perspective of a young person who is experiencing climate anxiety.
Source Four: Sanson, Ann V., et al. “Responding to the Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Children and Youth.” Child Development Perspectives, vol. 13, no. 4, 2019, pp. 201–207, https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12342.
This journal source in particular is similar to previous sources in the sense that it does its due diligence to cover all ground when approaching the conversation on how to improve and help the mental health of people (in particular youth). What I like that it does differently is that a central focus to the scholarly work is exploring the ideas of helping through supporting child to young adult resilience and hope within the structured systems they are found within. It's less focused on just individual work but more so solutions that focus on the ways community work is able to propel them forward into a healthier life. This source has helped me immensely when it comes to understanding the ways in which smaller systems in our lives play roles in how we are affected by climate change. It really sparked new ideas for my podcast as ot how do we not only help ourselves, but how do we pick and choose where to reside as well within our lives, whether that be in our neighborhood community, our town, our community centers, our schools if your a student, our work, and so forth. How and where we spend our physical time matters so much to how we learn to adapt and heal from climate anxiety, and that's something I really want to address within this project, as I feel that's not always talked about.
Source Five: Frumkin, Howard. “Hope, Health, and the Climate Crisis.” The Journal of Climate Change and Health, vol. 5, Feb. 2022, p. 100115, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2022.100115.
Within this source Frumkin explains the power of hope, especially when it comes to climate change and its negative effects on mental health. He explores hope within the boundaries of philosophy, clinical perspectives, treatments/methods to combat hopelessness, history of hope within nations, and how to use it to combat climate anxiety. His audience feels addressed to mental health care clinicians but I feel can also be utilized by students to better understand hope as an occurrence and as a tool in both a personal and medical setting. I specifically chose this paper as a way to diverge from the central path of mass solutionizing which in many ways is very helpful but in this case I wanted to really put a microscope to a less talked about solution to individual healing and growth. One that I think intersects within many other solutions, but is also powerful standing within itself. It really helped my research and project by allowing me to explore what it means to be resilient through hope, something that many may perceive to be a weakness. Within my podcast I didn't just want to highlight common solutions, but also ones that may not be thought about that could genuinely be effective within our recovery process against climate anxiety.
Source Six: Burton, Nylah. “People of Colour Experience Climate Grief More Deeply than White People.” VICE, 14 May 2020, www.vice.com/en/article/v7ggqx/people-of-colour-experience-climate-grief-more-deeply-than-white-people.
In this article Burton examines the multiple facets in which environmental devastation has a high trend of deeply affecting marginalized peoples. But in more important addition to this they cover how things such as that environmental devastation can worsen conditions they may already be under (or just add separate weight to them) such as prejudice, poverty, mental health issues, etc. They also move into discussions of grief and its appearance under climate strain conditions within people of color and the way it may present itself in them. Burton also speaks on how it goes past further suppression but how it links into the oppression of people of color as well. That it goes further than just symptoms of a negative thing- and is more of a densely layered package that leads to multiple issues in the emotional, physical, and systemic lens. This helped me with my podcast as it gave me a much better insight to the intersections of race, position, power, grief, authority, oppression, and the complexities that climate change arises for certain groups of people. It was informative but it was also a good way for me to more deeply understand the positions that my audience may be in, and understanding audience is one of the most important things one can do within a podcast project that surround the purpose of helping young people of different backgrounds understand their anxieties and grief around climate change.
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Source Seven: Ray, Sarah Jaquette. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet. University of California Press, 2020.
A Field to Climate Anxiety is a comprehensive book that overviews the ins and outs of climate change, mental health, adaptation, empathy, understanding, grief, and self evolution. Ray talks about the layers of what happens when you get involved within climate justice activism and are working towards a better future through all edges of it (political scale, social, self etc). They go over the start of putting into perspective realities we may overlook, as well as the realities that we personally exist in that vary from person to person. We also get a look into the art of conversation, and opening dialogue with people as a way of understanding from an upper perspective but by also learning more about self and others which always talk of empathy, compassion, ‘ditching guilt’, joy, and healing. Lastly it speaks on recovering and avoiding burnout and what we can do to build inner lives that allow us to grow rather than stay stagnant in numbness or anxieties. This book was an extensive help in shaping the way I carried and structured my podcast, all the sources were widely used, but this one helped lead some of the thought processes I was having into a more stable outcome. It was also very insightful in the chapters I read over and over when I needed to get a deeper understanding of a particular subject such as self, mental health and climate anxiety.
Source Eight: Weller, Francis, and Michael Lerner. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief. ReadHowYouWant, 2017.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief is work done by Francis Weller, on the subject of grieving within many different types of modes. Its purpose is to open up the floor to a conversation that doesn't get spoken about as frequently as it should. He speaks on how to face pain with different losses, and finding a way to walk with it figuratively. In further reading he speaks on the stages of grief and what it means to come up from that into new transitions, and seeing the world and ourselves in different perspectives that help us digest loss and or pain better. We also get to learn the overall importance of grief and the role it can play in empowerment and ritual to whatever is weighing on us. I particularly used this source as my main reading tool when learning of grief, the process and ritual, which then informed the advice I gave on the podcast.