Health & Wellness
serves to enhance the network and technology necessary for the improvement of
local capabilities to pursue wide-ranging screening and development of bioactives.
The DDHP is a multi-disciplinary program initially made up of seven sub-
programs, consisting of more than 30 project leaders, each with multiple research
projects, and participated in by about 20 universities and industry partners
nationwide.
Funded by: DOST
UPD
PSYCSERV:
UP Diliman Campus
Bringing
Ginhawa
into
the
Violeta V. Bautista, PhD
Department of Psychology
E-mail: [email protected]
Increasing cases of complex psychological problems, including suicide among
students, have become a critical issue that universities must address. In UP
Diliman, dealing with the problem has been challenging given its existing
resources.
UPD PsycServ is a special project developed under the Office of the Chancellor
by a team of psychologists and their associates in response to the growing need to
provide mental health services for the university. They created an approach to
promoting mental health and well-being called the Ginhawa Framework.
Ginhawa is an indigenous term that is synonymous to well-being. This approach
regards mental health not only as the absence of mental illness, but more
importantly as the complete physical, mental, and social well-being of an
individual.
Ginhawa as total well-being has associated key concepts. First is Sigla, which is
the energy and enthusiasm to anticipate and carry out tasks and go through life
experiences. Second is Gana, which is the appetite for life, for learning,
connecting and living. It is also about potency and competency in engaging life
and work, which is evident in the use of the word “gumagana” in the context of
persons or machines able to do their work well. Third is Gaan, which is associated
with the ease by which psychologically healthy people are able to carry themselves
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