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Mountain Movement: The Design, Implementation, & Evaluation Of A Youth Yoga Program, Abigail A. Long
Mountain Movement: The Design, Implementation, & Evaluation Of A Youth Yoga Program, Abigail A. Long
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Abigail Ann Long – PIM 70
Mountain Movement: The Design, Implementation, & Evaluation
of a Youth Yoga Program
May 2012
Mountain Movement is a youth yoga program designed to introduce children to the sustainable practice of yoga as well as convey the ability to recognize stress and utilize relaxation techniques. Children face a number of challenges throughout their daily lives. These challenges, ranging from academic pressures to bullying, can create stresses with negative impacts. Yoga is an activity that can provide children with tools and methods to better deal with and cope with these challenges. Mountain Movement has demonstrated that …
Suicide Rates Among Young, Married Women In Nepal, Kirra L. Hughes
Suicide Rates Among Young, Married Women In Nepal, Kirra L. Hughes
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In 2009, a Maternal Mortality and Morbidity (MMM) report carried out in Nepal by the Family Health Division of the Department of Health Services accidently stumbled upon a surprising leading cause of death in Nepali women of reproductive age (15 - 49). The result: suicide. And the numbers are still on the rise. There have since been no comprehensive follow-up studies and none, to my knowledge, that are currently ongoing. This leaves an urgent need for research to be done on the causes of these suicides (Benson and Shakya, 2011; Bertolote et al, 2005; Pradhan et al, 2009).
Globally, there …