Peak bodies urged to combat childhood climate anxiety

Peak bodies urged to combat childhood climate anxiety

“Clinicians are seeing a surge of Childhood Climate Anxiety in young children who do not have the neurological capacity to process existential threats as presented in the National Curriculum. Adults have a duty to protect, not burden, the developing minds of children,” said Clare Rowe, educational psychologist and Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Today, the IPA has written to the Australian Psychological Society, the Australian…