Non-Pharmacological Cooking Therapy: An Idea for Recovering the Mental Health of Adolescents as Disaster Victims of Mount Merapi Natural Eruption in Yogyakarta (Indonesia)

Abstract

Here discussed is the relevance of non-pharmacological therapy, especially cooking therapy, in supporting the mental health recovery of adolescent disaster victims, especially those affected by the natural eruption of Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Understanding 'Tunjuk Ajar Melayu Riau': Integrating local knowledge into environmental conservation and disaster education

“…Therefore, the value of local knowledge and wisdom in TAMR, which provides instructions and guidelines in nature conservation, is essential as an approach and material content that could be integrated into disaster learning. Integrating local knowledge's value in TAMR could facilitate knowledge transfer and didactic transposition in disaster education, so that it can be used as a basis for preliminary studies in the design and development of didactic transposition in disaster education [ [56] , [57] , [58] , [59] , [60] , [61] ].…”

Dhikr and Qur’an Recitation Therapy: An Idea to Recover the Mental Health of Families of the Death Victims of Mount Marapi Eruption in West Sumatra, Indonesia

“…We are writing this correspondence in response to various articles published on disaster mitigation around the world, particularly the article entitled "Non-Pharmacological Cooking Therapy: An Idea for Recovering the Mental Health of Adolescents as Disaster Victims of Mount Merapi Natural Eruption in Yogyakarta (Indonesia)". 1 This article is very interesting by offering the idea of cooking therapy to improve the mental health of adolescent disaster victims of the eruption of Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2023. In the article, the perspective of psychological intervention is aimed at survivors who need mental health recovery.…”