Featured Publications
Climate change anxiety and mental health: Environmental activism as buffer
Schwartz SEO, Benoit L, Clayton S, Parnes MF, Swenson L, Lowe SR. Climate change anxiety and mental health: Environmental activism as buffer. Current Psychology 2022, 42: 16708-16721. PMID: 35250241, PMCID: PMC8883014, DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-02735-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchClimate change anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorderEmotional impairmentsSense of agencyMDD symptomsMajor depressive disorderBody of researchCollective actionParticipants' worryGAD symptomsAnxiety disordersField's understandingMental healthIndividual actionsAdult studentsBehavioral responsesWorrySubscalesPsychiatric symptomsAnxietyImpairmentFunctional impairmentSuch relationshipsImpairment subscaleDepressive disorder
2020
Adolescent psychiatric disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown
Guessoum S, Lachal J, Radjack R, Carretier E, Minassian S, Benoit L, Moro M. Adolescent psychiatric disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. Psychiatry Research 2020, 291: 113264. PMID: 32622172, PMCID: PMC7323662, DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113264.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdolescent psychiatric disordersPsychiatric disordersMental healthCOVID-19Mental health supportAdolescent mental healthStressful life eventsGrief-related symptomsPost-traumatic stressHealth supportAnxiety disordersDisordersHome confinementCOVID-19 pandemicAdolescentsSymptomsLife eventsHealthCoping abilityIntrafamilial violenceLong-term impactPandemicDepressiveCareful considerationTerm impact