It was, as then principal Janette Cook explains, a term used to describe the blank faces, the fractured attention spans ...
‘Bushfire brain’: experts reveal how bushfire trauma impacts students’ learning
In the years after the Black Saturday bushfires reduced Middle Kinglake Primary School to ash, a well spat-out phrase lingered on the tips of teachers’ tongues: ‘bushfire brain’.
Mental disorder ‘eco-anxiety’ is under-researched and data deprived, but Dr Susie Burke, a senior psychologist from the Australian Psychological Society, believes the psycho–social impacts of the bushfires are gnawing deep into our kids’ psyches.
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