Mental Health
Rural Media Spotlight: Can shipping containers improve mental health access in Garabito?
As 2023 began, a major theme in national media coverage of mental health care in Costa Rica was a shortage of staff and resources...
Can Costa Rican municipalities safeguard caregivers’ mental health?
“Mom, don’t do that. Mom, make sure you don’t fall down. Mom, you ok over there?”
Psychologist Giselle Chanto is trying to show me how...
Is journalism an obsession or addiction among the profession’s retirees?
““There are as may kinds of minds
as there are palates”
-Baruch Spinoza
I asked this question to a few retired colleagues. Some responded quickly. Others took...
How to build a community network for suicide prevention
Psychologist Catalina Calderón works for the Costa Rican Ministry of Health in the North Central Health Administration. This region encompasses the entire province of...
Training for medical workers seeks to reduce mental health care gap in Costa Rica
“This is too much,” says Dr. Ninfa Salas. “We’re so scared.”
That’s how the Regional Psychology Supervisor for the Huetar Norte Region of Costa Rica’s...
Should psychiatric hospitals cease to exist?
What if a microphone were given to people whose voices we don't normally hear? What if a radio program was broadcast from a psychiatric...
For everyone experiencing depression
This month for our special edition of Mental Health we deliver our Half Orange column—which focuses on love, in all its forms—to an initiative...
For all the people who hesitate before psychiatric treatment
This month, for our special edition on Mental Health, we are handing over our Media Naranja column—which focuses on love, in all its forms—to...
For all those of us with mental disorder
This month, for our special edition on Mental Health, we are handing over our Media Naranja column—which focuses on love, it in all its...
Mental health in Costa Rica: Insight
“Are you aware that you are depressed and ill?” the doctor asked me.
“Excuse me?”
He looked up from the page where he was noting answers...
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Florex and the B Assessment: proving you’re green in a developing country
When environmental lawyer and Grupo Florex CEO Silvia Chaves heard about Certified B Corporations some seven years ago, she was intrigued.
“The comprehensive nature of...
