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    VISTAS Online is an innovative publication produced for ACA by Dr. Garry R. Walz and Dr. Jeanne C. Bleuer of Counseling Outfitters, LLC. Its purpose is to provide a means of capturing the ideas, information and experiences generated by the annual ACA Conference and selected ACA Division Conferences. Papers on a program or practice that has been validated through research or experience may also be submitted. This digital collection of peer-reviewed articles is authored by counselors, for counselors. VISTAS Online contains the full text of over 900 proprietary counseling articles published from 2004 to 2017.


    Addressing Global Mental Health

    John McCarthy and Melissa Habedank

    2014

    International mental health is an area of heightened interest, as it represents one of the top 10 research advances for 2012 (Insel, 2012). According to articles cited in Collins et al. (2011), a range of mental disorders—schizophrenia, depression, epilepsy, dementia, alcohol dependence, and other mental/neurological/substance use disorders—represent about 13% of global disease, and, in addition, an estimated 1.5 million individuals will complete suicide globally by 2020. This paper will outline various efforts to address global mental health, including the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health program through the NIMH; the Centre for Global Mental Health in the UK; and the Mental Health Facilitator program through the National Board for Certified Counselors-International.

    Keywords: mental health; international; counseling

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