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Reframing Climate Change: Using Children’s Literature as a Residency Training Tool to Address Climate Anxiety and Model Innovation

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We thank the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s Publication Committee for their guidance in the conceptualization of this project and review of the children’s book manuscript discussed in this letter to the editor.

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  1. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Jeremy D. Wortzel & Beth Mark

  2. Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Lena K. Champlin

  3. Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Climate Committee, Dallas, TX, USA

    Joshua R. Wortzel, Janet Lewis, Elizabeth Haase & Beth Mark

  4. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Joshua R. Wortzel & Janet Lewis

  5. University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV, USA

    Elizabeth Haase

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All the authors are co-authors on the book described in this letter to the editor. A total of 70% of all proceeds are donated to research on climate change and mental health to the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry – Climate Committee. JDW and LKC each receive 15% of the proceeds.

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Wortzel, J.D., Champlin, L.K., Wortzel, J.R. et al. Reframing Climate Change: Using Children’s Literature as a Residency Training Tool to Address Climate Anxiety and Model Innovation. Acad Psychiatry 46, 584–585 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-022-01651-y

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