ABSTRACT

Eco-anxiety may not be new, but could now be seen as an emergent phenomenon attracting increasing attention as public awareness about the climate and bio-diversity crisis grows. There may also be some generational differences in how we respond emotionally, with children often talking about feelings framed by their experience of adult misunderstanding or inaction. What often scares children the most is how they see the ‘adult world’ failing to take sufficient urgent action on these threats, whilst at the same time dismissing, criminalising, pathologising and patronising their feelings and voices. Children and young people are increasingly taking centre stage in protests about the need to take urgent action, whilst simultaneously often being the focus of society’s anxieties about the psychological impact of the crises; ‘we mustn’t frighten the children’. This paper focuses on children and young people’s perspectives; introducing eco-anxiety, drawing on clinical practice examples, research findings and finally offering conceptual frames to help us broaden and deepen our understanding of this evolving syndrome.

摘要

生态焦虑症可能并不新鲜，但随着公众对气候和生物多样性危机的意识增强，现在可以将其视为一种新兴现象，引起越来越多的关注。我们在情感上的反应方式上可能也存在代际差异，孩子们经常谈论他们对成人的误解或不作为的经历所构成的感觉。最令孩子们最恐惧的是他们如何看待“成人世界”未能对这些威胁采取足够的紧急行动，而同时驳斥，定罪，致病并光顾他们的情感和声音。儿童和年轻人越来越多地成为需要采取紧急行动的抗议活动的中心，同时又经常成为社会对危机心理影响的忧虑焦点。“我们不能吓f孩子们”。本文着眼于儿童和年轻人的观点；介绍生态焦虑症，借鉴临床实践实例，研究结果并最终提供概念框架，以帮助我们拓宽和加深对这种不断发展的综合症的理解。