Climate Change and Mental Health: Implications for the Psychiatric Workforce

Climate change is a major global public mental health crisis that is expected to increase the need for mental health services. Psychiatrists and other mental health care providers must address workforce needs through recruitment, training and education, prevention and intervention, public policy and advocacy, and direct efforts to reduce climate change. This column discusses concrete steps for the psychiatric workforce to take to prepare for growing mental health needs associated with climate change.

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Climate change is a global public mental health crisis that requires the psychiatric workforce to address the increasing need for mental health services. Concrete steps such as recruitment, training, education, prevention and intervention, public policy and advocacy, and efforts to reduce climate change are discussed.