Mental health support in schools is important for disaster recovery, study finds

Governments should strengthen school-based systems to support kids’ mental health and education after disasters, finds a review of 25 international studies. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy helped children who had experienced natural disasters and human-made disasters like war. A wider range of wellbeing-related and behavioural strategies were effective after the Covid pandemic, and exercise improved both kids’ mental health and their learning after disasters. Many of the effective i