Compounding Disasters and Australian Youth Mental Health: A Time of Significant (di)stress

Key Points

• The aim is to explore the relationship between climate events and mental health in Australian youth.
• Analyzed mental health impacts from extreme climate events and other stressful life events.
• Focused on young people's psychological responses to various stressors.
• Combined quantitative and qualitative assessments of distress levels.
• Extreme climate events cause significant distress in some young people.
• Other stressful events may have a greater effect on overall mental health than climate events.