Increasingly, mental health practitioners like Karen Magruder of The University of Texas at Arlington are seeing a phenomenon in their clinical settings that isn't well-described in the research literature. Magruder, assistant professor of practice in the School of Social Work , is digging deeper into a feeling of environmental dread called eco-anxiety. It's defined as the feeling of worry over future consequences of the ongoing climate crisis, not to be confused with eco-grief, a backward-facing feeling of mourning over the loss of what used to be.

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