2023
Climate awareness, anxiety, and actions among youth: a qualitative study in a middle-income country
Chou D, Neto E, Thomas I, Martin A, Benoit L. Climate awareness, anxiety, and actions among youth: a qualitative study in a middle-income country. Brazilian Journal Of Psychiatry 2023, 45: 258-267. PMID: 37015325, PMCID: PMC10288477, DOI: 10.47626/1516-4446-2022-2890.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTemporal perceptionSelf-care strategiesDevelopmental levelDifferent socioeconomic contextsQualitative studyInterpretative Phenomenological Analysis frameworkMental healthCollective levelYoung childrenDistinctive perceptionsRole modelsBrazilian childrenYoung peoplePerceptionEffective communicationChildrenFocus groups
2021
Review: Ecological awareness, anxiety, and actions among youth and their parents – a qualitative study of newspaper narratives
Benoit L, Thomas I, Martin A. Review: Ecological awareness, anxiety, and actions among youth and their parents – a qualitative study of newspaper narratives. Child And Adolescent Mental Health 2021, 27: 47-58. PMID: 34687125, DOI: 10.1111/camh.12514.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClimate crisisYoung peopleYouth-led activismClimate change anxietyPatterns of discourseYoung activistsClimate changePress narrativesDiscourse analysisClimate actionImmature waysUltimate saviourYouth concernsSources of meaningNewspaper articlesNewspaper narrativesAttitudes of childrenInnocent victimsParadigmatic wayQualitative studyNVivo softwareEnvironmental actionsRespective perspectivesAmerican newspapersDefensive stance
2020
Narrative Matters: Adult anxieties and prejudice against children – childism in The Twilight Zone
Thomas I, Martin A. Narrative Matters: Adult anxieties and prejudice against children – childism in The Twilight Zone. Child And Adolescent Mental Health 2020, 26: 89-91. PMID: 32970900, PMCID: PMC7855219, DOI: 10.1111/camh.12423.Commentaries, Editorials and Letters