{"id":24830,"date":"2024-02-19T18:39:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=24830"},"modified":"2024-02-19T18:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:39:56","slug":"climate-change-is-driving-a-new-type-of-anxiety-therapists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/02\/19\/climate-change-is-driving-a-new-type-of-anxiety-therapists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change is fueling a new type of anxiety, therapists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When psychotherapist Caroline Hickman was asked to help a child overcome their fear of dogs, she introduced them to her labradoodle, Murphy. \u201cYou make the child feel confident around the dog, and you teach them the skills to handle the dog,\u201d she says. \u201cYou build skills, you build competence, you build confidence, and then they\u2019re less afraid of dogs overall.\u201d <span>Climate anxiety is a different beast, says Hickman. \u201cWe don\u2019t know 100% how to deal with it. And it would be a huge mistake to try to treat it like other anxieties that we know very well and have been around for decades. This one is much, much worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the most severe cases, climate anxiety interferes with the ability to function on a daily basis. Children and young people in this category experience alienation from friends and family, distress when thinking about the future, and intrusive thoughts about who will survive, according to Hickman&#039;s research. (<em>Olivia Rudgard, Jack Wittels, Bloomberg News, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-02-climate-fueling-anxiety-therapists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">medicalxpress.com<\/span><\/a> )<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When psychotherapist Caroline Hickman was asked to help a child overcome their fear of dogs, she introduced them to her labradoodle, Murphy. \u201eYou make the child feel confident around the dog, and you teach them the skills to handle the dog,\u201c she says. \u201eYou build the skills, you build the competence, you build the confidence, and then they\u2019re less afraid of dogs overall.\u201c Climate anxiety is a different beast, Hickman says. \u201eWe don\u2019t know [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}