Youth Climate Anxiety - Launch of global study Tickets, Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite
Event description
Join us for the launch of a groundbreaking new scientific study - largest international survey of climate anxiety in children & young people
About this event
To watch the livestream of this launch, visit:
avaaz.org/climateanxiety
The event will:
- reveal findings from a survey* of 10,000 children and young people
- show clearly how the reality of climate change, together with government inaction, is linked to high levels of psychological distress
- bring together world-leading experts in the field of mental health and human rights, alongside powerful youth activists, to discuss the problem and what can be done
Panelists:
- Caroline Hickman: lead author of the study, psychotherapist, academic and researcher at the University of Bath, Climate Psychology Alliance.
- Elizabeth Marks: lead author of the study, clinical psychologist, lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bath.
- Luisa Neubauer: German youth activist.
- Jennifer Uchendu: Nigerian youth activist.
- Elouise Mayall: co-author of the study, Member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition, and co-organiser of the Local Council of Youth 2019.
- Natasa Mavronicola: human rights expert at the University of Birmingham.
*This is the first large-scale, global study of climate anxiety in children and young people. It was funded by Avaaz and conducted by an international group of psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and young people with expertise in mental health, trauma and climate change, across six different universities:
- Caroline Hickman, University of Bath | Dr. Elizabeth Marks, University of Bath
- Dr. Panu Pihkala, University of Helsinki
- Dr. Susan Clayton, The College of Wooster
- Dr. Eric Lewandowski, NYU Langone Health, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Elouise E. Mayall, University of East Anglia
- Dr. Britt Wray, Stanford University and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Dr. Catriona Mellor, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr. Lise van Susteren, Climate Psychiatry Alliance
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Online event