May 20, 2022 - Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) congratulates the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Congress 2022 “A Climate of Change”, the New South Wales Australian Medical Association and a series of Climate Change and Mental ...
Mental Health
Dr Cybele Dey: The invisible impact of climate change
January 27, 2022 - Child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Cybele Dey is the Chair of the Mental Health Working Group and a member of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) based in Sydney. In ...
SMH: Hotter temperatures and extreme weather linked to mental distress, suicide
October 18, 2021 - Mental health experts including Dr Cybele Dey call for urgent and real action on climate change, as evidence emerges that higher temperatures and extreme weather events including floods and droughts ...
Helping young people address anxiety caused by climate change
October 18, 2021 - Anticipated threats to, and actual losses, of our natural world from the impacts of climate change are being increasingly recognised as having significant psychological impact, especially in young people, writes ...
Report: How Climate Change Affects Mental Health In Australia
October 11, 2021 - – Climate change is increasingly driving more severe and frequent extreme weather events such as extreme heat, bushfires, storms and floods which have serious and wide-reaching impacts on the mental health of ...