Bienestar and Mental Health: The Meaning Behind a Word

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This paper is an autoethnographic reflection of the author’s time spent in Bogotá, Colombia through a graduate study abroad program with the cuny School of Professional Studies. Through the lens of mental health, the author reflects on the personal impact study abroad had on their own wellbeing, his experiences visiting the youth programs of Fundación Centro Internacional de Educación y Desarrollo Humano (cinde), and the power of connecting with different communities. Describing their visit to one of cinde’s programs at Las Villas, the author reflects on how bienestar (wellbeing) is interweaved into the culture of the program and how the visit impacted her own bienestar. The idea that definitions of terms such as bienestar and mental health are specific to the cultures that use them is discussed throughout the autoethnographic reflection.


 

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Andrea F. Canova

CUNY School of Professional Studies