Natural disasters and other traumatic events could be engines of growth.

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, forcing more than half a million residents to flee, psychologists are investigating the mental and emotional fallout of the natural disaster.

A series of longitudinal studies of Katrina survivors, featured this week in the journal Nature, paint a complicated picture of the storm’s repercussions for mental health.

Jean Rhodes’ interviewed for this article in the Huffington Post.