{"title":"Climate change and mental health: the rising tide of eco-distress.","authors":"Bill Sheate","doi":"10.1177/17579139251333289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139251333289","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139251333289"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144691929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social prescribing link workers: a test for public health ethics?","authors":"C Melam","doi":"10.1177/17579139251355898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139251355898","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139251355898"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144691938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peace in mind: responding to mental ill health associated with the climate crisis through personally meaningful change.","authors":"K Burns, D Doran, M Pearson","doi":"10.1177/17579139251350828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139251350828","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>To explore the principles of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) framework in relation to climate change as a global threat to mental health. To introduce WRAP to public health practitioners involved in improving the mental health of diverse populations in response to climate change. To critically review how privileging the principles of WRAP can inform public and healthcare practitioner approaches to tackling rising distress resulting from climate change.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A selective, iterative, purposive review of theoretical and empirical studies, within a critical realist epistemology, was undertaken. Analysis was undertaken deductively.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The WRAP principles of personal responsibility, self-advocacy, hope, support, and education are considered in turn. While exploring the principles of WRAP, additional frameworks and concepts in mental health are explored in relation to climate change. Each of the principles explored has a link to the work already being undertaken informally by those involved in climate activism. Principles of recovery from distress draw our attention to 'active hope' and 'citizenship' through reconnection with people and planet, and sharing common experiences.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Experiences of those experiencing distress and those involved in climate activism can provide new ways to re-formulate theory and practice for public health initiatives. By meeting the concerns of citizens in relation to their health in the context of a changing climate, health practitioners have the opportunity to improve psychological and material circumstances by using accessible, personally meaningful, and community-connecting frameworks such as WRAP. By encouraging hope-full re-orientation and action, healthcare workers and the citizens they aim to serve can improve their mutual health and inform future individual or collective action in relation to climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139251350828"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144638393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A scoping review on arts-based interventions for the mental health of refugee and asylum-seeking children and youth.","authors":"N Yang, Y Gong","doi":"10.1177/17579139251353431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139251353431","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>The rising number of displaced children and youth underscores the urgent need for appropriate mental health support. Arts-based interventions (ABI) offer a promising approach to addressing this need. This scoping review aims to map key themes on the effects of the different types of ABI on the mental health of refugee and asylum-seeking children and youth (RASCY), identifying gaps and recommendations for future intervention and mental health policy.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Literature was searched across Web of Science, PubMed, ERIC, and Scopus (till March 2024) in the English language. A narrative analysis identified themes and mapped the intervention types to the themes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four main themes emerged from the eight included studies, indicating that ABI positively impacts RASCY's emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing and behaviour, consistent with the WHO definition of mental health, with an additional outcome: behavioural change. Findings highlight the need for mixed-methods approaches and stand-alone dance, drama and poetry interventions. Future interventions should commit to longer interventions (⩾ 10 weeks), integrate ABI into schools and community settings, and provide training on ABI for both educational and health professionals.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There is strong evidence that ABI can effectively improve RASCY's mental health and prevent mental health difficulties by changing behaviour and promoting mental wellbeing. ABI can help these vulnerable populations thrive and contribute to healthier, more inclusive societies. The integration of ABI within mental health intervention and prevention strategies should be promoted and implemented, particularly for RASCY.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139251353431"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144638392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teetering on a cliff edge: Britain's relationship with alcohol.","authors":"C Kennedy, M Missen","doi":"10.1177/17579139241296479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139241296479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139241296479"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144585263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mental health impacts of catastrophic events: policy considerations.","authors":"A Bell, D Woodhead","doi":"10.1177/17579139251353341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139251353341","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139251353341"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144576660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Youth Educating Peers (YEP) project: making adaptions for youth peer-led sexual health education.","authors":"K McCausland, L Geraghty, R Lobo","doi":"10.1177/17579139241303647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139241303647","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139241303647"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144567986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A George, D Ahmed, L Guo, N Dissanayake, P Clarke, B Dalrymple
{"title":"Embedding systems thinking in local authority public health practice: a case study.","authors":"A George, D Ahmed, L Guo, N Dissanayake, P Clarke, B Dalrymple","doi":"10.1177/17579139251317480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139251317480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139251317480"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of professional football clubs in enhancing young people's mental health: a mixed-method survey of interventions delivered by English Football League Trusts.","authors":"G E Hale, D Lancastle, N Lewis, P J Tyson","doi":"10.1177/17579139251335284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139251335284","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Football Club Community Trusts (FCCTs) that are attached to professional football clubs in the UK use the sport brand to engage marginalised populations in various initiatives designed to address public health agendas. Studies highlight the impact that FCCTs can have on adults' mental health, yet less is known about programmes for young people under 18 years. This study is the first to identify the mental health-focussed interventions for young people that are delivered by the FCCTs in the English Football League (EFL), including the key programme features and challenges to implementation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A 60-item mixed-method survey was sent to all 70 FCCTs in the EFL during the 2018-2019 season in September 2018. In total, 54 (77.1%) FCCTs responded.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In total, 21 FCCTs were delivering mental health-focused interventions to young people and 23 different initiatives were identified. Reported aims included promoting resilience (<i>n</i> = 19/21, 90.5%) and self-esteem (<i>n</i> = 19/21, 90.5%), as well as identifying young people at risk of developing a mental health problem (<i>n</i> = 9/21, 42.9%). However, features of individual programmes varied. Some used football to increase social inclusion and overall wellbeing, whereas others included education sessions to improve mental health literacy (e.g. anti-stigma, strategies to promote mental health). FCCTs also reported challenges with evaluating their own interventions, sustaining funding, and keeping up to date with mental health training.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study contributes to the limited literature on professional sport club community trust interventions, highlighting the value of programmes targeting children and young people's mental health. FCCT programmes align with mental health promotion and prevention policy, by providing opportunities to participate in physical activity (PA), develop mental health literacy, and identify young people at risk of developing mental health problems. Collaboration with organisations with expertise in service evaluation, audit, and research is essential to support FCCTs in evaluating their impact and demonstrating the significance of their work.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139251335284"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T Keller, I Braithwaite, A Brook, J Beagley, S Narayan, T A Deivanayagam
{"title":"Adapting the MPOWER policy framework for fossil fuels and public health: reflections on content and process.","authors":"T Keller, I Braithwaite, A Brook, J Beagley, S Narayan, T A Deivanayagam","doi":"10.1177/17579139251342161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139251342161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139251342161"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}