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C McMeel
Bio: C McMeel is an academic researcher from University College Dublin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Population. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 19 citations.
Topics: Mental health, Population
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TL;DR: The findings suggest that while green spaces are associated with positive mental health outcomes, most studies were cross-sectional in nature and provided limited evidence for association.
Abstract: Background: Our planet is currently experiencing the largest wave of urban growth in history, with 55% of the world’s population (4.2 billion people) currently living in urban areas, a figure set t...
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TL;DR: The impact of climate change on health, social, and economic issues was highlighted in the 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown as mentioned in this paper , where the authors pointed out that climate change is increasingly affecting the foundations of human health and wellbeing, exacerbating the vulnerability of the world's populations to concurrent health threats.
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TL;DR: Students who spent most of their time at home during the COVID-19 epidemic experienced better mental health when exposed to more greenery, and the mental health-supportive effects of indoor greenery were largely explained by increased feelings of being away while at home.
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TL;DR: In this article, a synergy of literature provides a current summary of the adverse mental health impacts of the climate and environmental crisis from the perspective of clinical psychology, including biological, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and social pathways.
Abstract: Humankind is confronted with progressing climate change, pollution, environmental degradation, and/or destruction of the air, soil, water, and ecosystems. The climate and environmental crisis is probably one of the greatest challenges in the history of humankind. It not only poses a serious current and continuing threat to physical health, but is also an existing and growing hazard to the mental health of millions of people worldwide. This synergy of literature provides a current summary of the adverse mental health impacts of the climate and environmental crisis from the perspective of Clinical Psychology. Furthermore, it presents potential underlying processes, including biological, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and social pathways. The existing data suggest that the climate and environmental crisis not only acts as a direct stressor, but can also exert a detrimental impact on the various pathways, with the potential to amplify an individual's biopsychosocial vulnerability to develop mental ill-health. This is a call for an increased investigation into this emerging research field of Clinical Ecopsychology by clinical psychologists and other researchers.
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TL;DR: Based on the evidence reviewed here, exposure to urban greenspaces can support multiple mental health outcomes in upper-middle-income countries, however, the authors still know little about poorer, rapidly urbanising countries.
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