Nancy Choe, assistant professor of marital and family therapy at LMU, spoke with CBS-LA about the impact of last year’s wildfires on mental health. “There’s all these compounding losses: homes, community, sense of identity, sense of routine, normalcy, all of those things…Oftentimes, there’s so much that was lost in the fire, not just belongings and not just items, just a whole sense of, sometimes, identity.” Through her research, Choe has found that connecting individuals to community resources has been most beneficial.
Source: CBS-LA