Case study:

• The town of Lismore flooded twice in 2022, in February and March.
• The February flood was 2 metres higher than any record going back to 1887.
• These climate events impact on mental health of the people and the communities affected.
• Among those affected is a person who has lost their work at the Lismore Art Gallery, 6 months after the second flood they continue to experience depression.

1. Discuss the impact of floods on the mental health of the people and communities in the affected areas.
2. How might a person be affected by flood-related trauma, and how would you, as the worker support them?
3. How might a worker understand a person's flood related depression in relation to the neuroscience?
4. What is your understanding of neuroplasticity and how this might be useful, or not, and how might it be applied?
5. As a worker taking a person centred care approach, what might be your be rolebe in responding to people affected by the floods?