Reframing Climate Change: Using Children's Literature as a Residency Training Tool to Address Climate Anxiety and Model Innovation.
Reframing Climate Change: Using Children's Literature as a Residency Training Tool to Address Climate Anxiety and Model Innovation.
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重塑气候变化：利用儿童文学作为住院医师培训工具来解决气候焦虑和模式创新。
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10.1007/s40596-022-01651-y
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2022
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Mark,Beth
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Wortzel,JeremyD;Champlin,LenaK;Wortzel,JoshuaR;Lewis,Janet;Haase,Elizabeth;Mark,Beth
致编辑：鉴于我们对气候变化对心理健康的深刻影响的认识不断加深，心理健康专业人员和学员面临着寻找新方法来解决与气候相关的困扰的挑战。对于儿童来说，这些困难可能会变得更加复杂，因为他们的照顾者自己可能会对现实的，充满希望的和适合发展的有用的气候变化沟通手段感到不知所措。因此，在这里，我们报告创建一个以证据为基础的儿童文学作品作为一个创新的公共卫生干预，精神病学学员可以使用治疗临床气候困扰的儿童，以及探索创新的方法来履行其公共卫生的作用，保护儿童的心理健康。作为一个由心理健康专业人士和环境科学家组成的团队，我们写了一本儿童图画书，为与气候相关的想法和感受提供了发育适当的，心理上的反应，以帮助家长，教师和临床医生在培训的各个阶段。我们回顾了目前出版的关于这一主题的儿童书籍以及关于如何最好地与儿童讨论气候变化和气候焦虑的学术文章[2，3]。根据这篇评论，我们合成了一个六步的、有心理基础的“气候谈话”：（1）通过了解孩子们已经知道的知识来介绍气候变化的话题;（2）简单而完整地解释气候变化的科学;（3）带着希望描述气候变化问题，但不要粉饰后果;（4）讨论参与应对气候变化的可行方法;（5）为未来的对话展开讨论;最后，激发孩子们对自然世界的好奇心。嵌入在这个“气候谈话”中，为了对比讨论气候变化的传统比喻，将“修复我们的地球”的全部负担放在年轻一代身上，是对科学家，活动家和政治家的蓬勃发展社区的重要介绍，已经在努力解决这些问题，并建议儿童如何参与其中。与精神病学促进小组合作，气候委员会，围绕这六步“气候谈话”的组成部分创建了一个故事情节，研讨会，并与儿童精神病学家，心理学家，小学教师，家长和儿童的意见进行了修改。最后的作品《可可的火：将气候焦虑转变为气候行动》讲述了一只小松鼠如何将与气候有关的担忧转变为行动力的故事。目前，正在为教师和学生开发教育课程，以使用Coco's Fire作为开始这些对话的平台，评估这些干预措施有效性的指标对于该材料的持续开发至关重要。
To the Editor: Given our burgeoning awareness of the profound effects of climate change on mental health, mental health professionals and trainees are challenged to find novel ways to address climate-related distress. For children, these difficulties may be compounded because their caregivers can themselves be at a loss for useful means of communication about climate change that are realistic, hopeful, and developmentally appropriate [1]. Therefore, here we report the creation of an evidence-based piece of children’s literature as an innovative public health intervention that psychiatry trainees can use therapeutically for children with clinical climate distress as well as to explore innovative ways to fulfill their public health role of protecting the mental health of children. As a team of mental health professionals and environmental scientists, we wrote a children’s picture book that provides developmentally appropriate, psychologically grounded responses to climate-related thoughts and feelings to aid parents, teachers, and clinicians at all stages of training. We reviewed children’s books currently published on this topic and scholarly pieces about how best to discuss climate change and climate anxiety with children [2, 3]. From this review, we synthesized a six-step, psychologically grounded “Climate Talk”:(1) introduce the topic of climate change by finding out what children already know;(2) explain the science of climate change simply but completely;(3) describe the problem of climate change with hope but without sugar coating the ramifications;(4) discuss approachable ways to get involved in addressing climate change;(5) open the discussion for future conversations; and (6) conclude by inspiring a sense of wonder about the natural world in children. Embedded in this “Climate Talk,” in an effort to contrast the traditional tropes of discussing climate change that place the entire burden of “fixing our planet” on a younger generation, is an important introduction to the thriving community of scientists, activists, and politicians already working to address these issues and suggestions for how children can get involved. In collaboration with the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry–Climate Committee, a storyline centered around the components of this six-step “Climate Talk” was created, workshopped, and revised with input from child psychiatrists, psychologists, elementary school teachers, parents, and children. The final product, Coco’s Fire: Changing ClimateAnxiety into Climate Action [4], is the story of a young squirrel’s quest to transform her climate-related worries into agency. Currently, educational curricula are being developed for teachers and students to use Coco’s Fire as a platform to start these conversations, and metrics to assess the effectiveness of these interventions will be critical in continued development of this material.