{"id":3501556,"date":"2024-05-30T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3501556"},"modified":"2025-08-12T22:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:45:51","slug":"the-kids-arent-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2024-05-30\/the-kids-arent-alright\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kids Aren\u2019t Alright"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journalist and podcaster Rachel Donald (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetcritical.com\/about\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planet: Critical<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) interviews Caroline Hickman, a practicing psychotherapist and researcher who focuses on eco-anxiety, especially in young people. Caroline defines eco-anxiety, explains how it\u2019s natural to feel distress if you care about the state of the environment, covers how to communicate with others about eco-anxiety, and suggests ways to move through feelings of anger and despair to achieve emotional resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caroline Hickman is a lecturer at the University of Bath in social work and climate psychology, a practicing climate-aware psychotherapist, and a researcher focused on eco-anxiety and distress about the climate and ecological crisis in children and young people. She regularly makes media appearances and delivers presentations to share her insights on eco-anxiety and how to cope with it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"resp-content-preview-message\">\r\n\t<h2>Get this Resilience+ Deep Dive to see more<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>With a Resilience+ account you can get Deep Dive content and first-hand access to events with experts, facilitated discussions, and educational resources.<\/p>\r\n\t<a class=\"res-btn-yellow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/product\/deep-dive-building-emotional-resilience\/\">Get This Deep Dive<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t<div style=\"margin-top: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/enter\/\">Log In<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist and podcaster Rachel Donald (Planet: Critical) interviews Caroline Hickman, a practicing psychotherapist and researcher who focuses on eco-anxiety, especially in young people. Caroline defines eco-anxiety, explains how it\u2019s natural to feel distress if you care about the state of the environment, covers how to communicate with others about eco-anxiety, and suggests ways to move through feelings of anger and despair to achieve emotional resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128248,"featured_media":3501557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79718,252007,79720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3501556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-resilience-plus","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515387,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501556\/revisions\/3515387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3501557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}