‘Just following tradition’

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 03/09/2023

That was the reason offered by Tau Gamma Phi Adamson University chapter leader, Tung Cheng Teng Jr., when asked at a Senate hearing, investigating the death of student John Matthew Salilig, as to why they continue engaging…

Jeepney operators strike back

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 03/02/2023

An estimated 40,000 traditional jeepneys and UV express vehicles in Metro Manila will join a weeklong strike next week, as a response to the mandates being enforced by the government’s public utility vehicle modernization program. The Land…

Preventing teenage pregnancy

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 02/09/2023

Yesterday’s front page included a report on teen births increasingly involving older men, with 59 percent of registered adolescent births fathered by a man older than 20 years old, according to Dr. Leila Joudane, United Nations Population…

Mental health, front and center

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 02/02/2023

I was alerted early in the morning by a concerned former teacher and long-time correspondent, Professor Mamaril, about this newspaper’s front page headlining the student mental health crisis, as reported by the Department of Education (DepEd) at…

Crying over onions

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 01/19/2023

When does an economic issue turn into a mental health issue? The world of mental health is quite expansive. It interacts with practically every facet of our lives. The moment something affects the way we think and…

The many faces of grief

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 12/15/2022

People sometimes ask me whether their grief is normal. Most worry that they’ve been grieving too long; others get concerned that they might not be feeling as strongly as they should. I assure them that there is…

Time to integrate mental health

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 10/27/2022

One of the challenges of my column is to look for current news related to mental health. Sometimes, a national topic demonstrates psychological issues quite nicely, but most of the time, mental health doesn’t really make it…

‘Good vibes only’

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 10/06/2022

Warning: This article does not contain good vibes only. I’ve encountered the phrase in a variety of spaces: in social media, in dating profiles, and in therapy conversations. At least in therapy, rarely do clients talk about…

Extracurricular for mental health

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 09/08/2022

It seems that the Department of Education (DepEd) has learned all the wrong things in the pandemic. DepEd has prohibited extracurricular activities for the school year, as it aims for students to spend more time on academics…

On quiet quitting

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 09/01/2022

What’s in a name? Every so often, a new term is coined to describe a modern phenomenon. A lot of the time, this term catches on as more and more people resonate with the experience until it…

Let’s do in-person learning right

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 07/07/2022

During the President’s first press briefing, there was a renewed pronouncement of committing to resuming 100 percent in-person classes by November. So far, the Philippines is one of the longest to remain in remote learning mode and…

Public mental health: A wish list

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 06/23/2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released the World Mental Health Report, a 20-year update to its previous incarnation. Essentially, it described the worsening mental health conditions where one in eight people in the world live with…

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