Climate change and mental health: a co-produced, transformative study with young people in Blackpool

这项研究积极地让面临多重系统性劣势的年轻人（YPfMSD）参与关于气候变化的讨论，找出它可能对他们的心理健康产生的影响，了解他们对社区未来的愿景，并努力共同创造变革行动。它被嵌套在由HeadStart Blackpool （HS）领导并与布莱顿大学和BoingBoing CiC合作的全镇弹性项目中，该项目被称为弹性革命布莱克浦（“弹性革命”2019）。它与该镇的年轻人和从业者密切合作，从环境的角度出发，在现有资源的基础上共同生产材料。布莱克浦是最贫困的地方政府之一，儿童贫困在英格兰排名第14位（布莱克浦委员会2017年）。气候变化是这个沿海城市面临的另一个逆境，最近被描述为“对穷人的不合理攻击”（人权理事会2019年，21日），因为气候崩溃的后果将对生活在贫困中的人产生最大的影响，并有可能使50年来的发展付诸东去，也使发达国家的中产阶级家庭陷入贫困。此外，最近的研究发现，气候变化与心理健康之间存在联系（Hayes等人，2018），solastalgia （Albrecht等人，2007）等现象与生态焦虑之间也存在联系。一些研究调查了气候变化对年轻人心理健康的影响（Ojala 2012b; 2013; 2012a），但面临多重系统性劣势的年轻人，如生活在社会经济水平较低的地区，往往被排除在研究之外。本研究的重点是气候变化如何影响YPfMSD的心理健康，从而影响其复原力，以及如何共同开发青年代理的系统机会。这项研究还希望填补文献中的一个重要空白，即英国弱势地区年轻人的态度是什么，需要什么资源和支持来支持心理健康，以及如何与年轻人共同创造与气候危机相关的变革行动。这也有可能导致对气候变化的完全不同的理解和叙述，从心理健康的角度看待它，使用适合面临多重系统性挑战的YP的语言。

This research actively engages young people facing multiple systemic disadvantages (YPfMSD) in discussions about climate change, to find out what impact it might have on their mental health, to learn about their vision for the future of their community and to work on co-creating transformative actions. It is nested in the whole-town resilience project, known as Resilience Revolution Blackpool ('Resilience Revolution' 2019), led by HeadStart Blackpool (HS) and in partnership with the University of Brighton and BoingBoing CiC. It works closely with the young people and practitioners of the town to build on the existing resources and co-produce materials from an environmental angle. Blackpool is one of the most deprived local authorities, with child poverty being the 14th worst in England (Blackpool Council 2017). Climate change, an additional adversity also faced by the coastal town, was recently described as an "unconscionable assault on the poor" (Human Rights Council 2019, 21) because consequences from climate breakdown will have the greatest impact on those living in poverty and furthermore threatens to undo 50 years of development, also pushing middle class families in developed countries into poverty. In addition, recent studies found a connection between climate change and mental health (Hayes et al. 2018) and phenomena such as solastalgia (Albrecht et al. 2007) and eco-anxiety are being discussed. Some studies have investigated the effect that climate change has on the mental health of young people (Ojala 2012b; 2013; 2012a) but young people facing multiple systmeic disadvantages, such as living in low-socio economic areas, are often left out of research.This study focuses on how climate change influences the mental health and therefore the resilience of YPfMSD and how systematic opportunities for youth agency can be co-developed. This research also looks to fill an important gap in the literature on what the attitudes of young people in a disadvantaged area of the UK are, what resources and support are needed to support mental health and how transformative actions related to the climate crisis can be co-created with young people. This also has the potential to lead to an entirely different understanding and narrative of climate change, looking at it from a mental health perspective, using language appropriate for YP facing multiple systemic challenges.