Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): A Powerful Contextual Approach to Promoting Youth Mental Health in Schools Young people spend much of their lives at school, and school has many significant impacts on their well-being and mental health. Schools are educational institutions with the primary aim of providing a formal learning environment and space to stu-dents…
Management Strategies in Suicide – Mental Health
A lifetime history of suicide attempt predisposes the individual to future suicide attempts and, eventually, death by suicide. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in the development and implementation of various effective interventions in populations with a recent suicide attempt. Evidence-based interventions in attempted suicide can be grouped under pharmacological treatments, psychosocial interven-tions, brief…
Transporting Taste – Eating in US National Parks
Before the twentieth century, it was the upper classes who could afford to travel to the few existing national parks. To reach Yosemite Valley in the 1860s, “it was nec-essary to take a boat from San Francisco to Stockton, followed by a sixteen-hour stagecoach ride to Coulterville, and finally a fifty-seven-mile, thirty-seven-hour trek by horse…
Tourism and Taste – Eating in US National Parks
Romantic sensibilities have significantly shaped the past of the national parks, and cosmopolitan tastes stand to shape their future. Romanticism, a movement that emphasized individual self-expression, emotion, imagination, nature, and the per-sonal experience of the sublime (Swiggett 1903), gained traction in nineteenth-century Europe as a critique of the Enlightenment rationality that had ushered in the…
Nukides – Memorable Recipes
Nukides are a Libyan version of gnocchi served with stewed lamb. Purchased premade gnocchi can be substituted if you prefer not to make your own. Serves 6 Stewed lamb Vegetable oil, for cooking 2 pounds lamb stew meat (such as shoulder), cubed 1–2 marrow bones 1 (6-ounce) can tomato paste 1 (28-ounce) can whole tomatoes,…
Tembleque – Coconut Pudding – 100 Memorable Recipes
I think there has never been a more perfectly named dessert than tembleque, which gets its name from the Spanish word for “tremble,” referring to the wiggly-jiggly texture of this molded coconut pudding. This Puerto Rican classic is enjoyed year-round and can often be found at bakery and dessert shops around the island. It’s a…
Mental Health Prevention and Promotion Activities
Prevention of mental disorders implies preventing their occurrence in non-affected individuals or reducing relapse frequency, symptom burden, and overall impact in affected patients and their families. This popular concept had its early moorings in the mental hygiene movement, called so because of its similarities with other hygienic practices that seek to establish a set of…
Introduction to Links Between Public Mental Health and Suicide
Mental health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as not the mere absence of a mental health condition, but a state of well-being that allows individu-als to realize their full potential, demonstrate resilience in the face of adversity, be productive, make meaningful relationships, and contribute to their communities (World Health Organization, 2004). Of…
The Kuna Yala – Panama – Central America Travel Guide
THE KUNA YALA Spread out across 49 communities in the Comarca, there are an estimated 50,000 Kuna people, also known as Guna, living in much in the same way they have for centuries. During the time of conquest, many were living in what is today known as the Darién, but fighting with the Catio people…
Isla Bastimentos – Polleras Of Azuero – Central America Travel Guide
Isla Bastimentos The second largest island in the Bocas del Toro archipelago, Isla Bastimentos is dominated by the Isla Bastimentos National Marine Park, which includes jungle-backed beaches with powdery white sand and the pristine coral formations just off-shore. Bastimentos is much more relaxed than Bocas Town, with just one small creole town of 200 called…