Predictors of individual mental health and psychological resilience after Australia's 2019–2020 bushfires

E Macleod, T Heffernan… - Australian & New …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: We assessed the mental health effects of Australia's 2019–2020 bushfires 12–18
months later, predicting psychological distress and positive psychological outcomes from …

Psychosocial resources underlying disaster survivors' posttraumatic stress symptom trajectories: insight from in-depth interviews with mothers who survived Hurricane …

S Tekin, K Burrows, J Billings, M Waters… - European journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Weather-related disasters, including hurricanes, are becoming more frequent
and severe due to climate change. Vulnerable populations, such as people with low income …

Community service workers' experiences following Australia's Black Summer: Contextualising rural service provision

M Rusconi, H Boetto - Australian Social Work, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Australian Black Summer season of 2019–2020 caused widespread social,
economic, and environmental impacts for affected rural communities. In this article, the …

[HTML][HTML] Bushfire smoke and children's health—exploring a communication gap

EI Walsh, G Sargent, B Cevik-Compiegne… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The “Black Summer” bushfires of 2019/2020 in Australia generated smoke that persisted for
over three months, mainly affecting Eastern Australia. Most communication strategies …

'Profound personal and professional impacts': A qualitative study of clinician experiences of a mental health disaster response to Australia's black summer bushfires

M Thomas, E Martin, S Isobel - Australian Journal of Rural …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To explore the experiences of clinician and management stakeholders involved in
a rural/metropolitan collaborative mental health disaster response to the 2019–2020 Black …

Development of a questionnaire library for rapid health data acquisition during wildfire events

L Liu, C Loftus, D Rohlman, E Seto, E Austin - medRxiv, 2025 - medrxiv.org
Rapid health outcome data acquisition using existing questionnaires can greatly facilitate
time-sensitive research during or after a wildfire event. We aimed to develop a readily …

Mental health in a time of crisis: The detrimental effects of climate change

E Leask, LA Ellis, G Dammery… - Routledge Handbook of …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter explores the relationship between climate change and mental health on an
international stage. Climate change is a threat to mental health, both as a result of acute …