The National Board for Certified Counselors and the NBCC Foundation will host their third international virtual conference, Mental Health Connections: Building a Global Counseling Community, from Nov. 30–Dec. 2, and CCE credential holders and students are eligible for a 20% discount on the registration fee. The conference is focused on education, training, practice, and research geared toward building a global mental health community.
The presenters represent over 20 countries and will share insights from an international perspective. Participants will learn about the state of mental health outside of the United States and mental health needs of and responses to international students and immigrants in the United States as well as the challenges that helping professionals in other countries face.
“This conference was originally created due to the pandemic to allow counselors to learn about mental health in other countries and how counseling professionals and other mental health providers were responding to needs exacerbated by COVID-19,” explained Dr. Wendi Schweiger-Moore, Director of Global Capacity Building. “We realized after that first conference that this event could continue to provide a place to learn from our colleagues living inside and outside of the U.S. in a format that engages us in a better understanding of our unique and common mental health challenges and strengths on a yearly basis that can also include understanding the progression of initiatives over time.”
Keynote presentations are:
International Mental Health Education, Services, and Research: Working Across Cultural Boundaries With Humility, Creativity, and Perseverance, by Dr. Maha Y. See, founder and program director, Myanmar Clinical Psychology Consortium, Burma; Yun Shi, LMFT, doctoral candidate, Oregon State University; and Dr. Zachary Pietrantoni, assistant professor of counselor education, Florida International University.
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) Celebrates Diversity and Inclusion: Building, Supporting, and Enhancing Counselling and Psychotherapy Across and Within Cultures, by Dr. Kathy Offet-Gartner, president, CCPA; Dr. Kim Hollihan, CEO, CCPA; Dr. Jen Rowett, past president, CCPA; Carrie Foster, president-elect, CCPA; and George Maringapasi, treasurer, CCPA.
A Day in the Life of a Counselor will feature counselors from around the world including Bhutan, Malawi, the Philippines, and Zambia discussing their experiences as counselors and educators; local mental health challenges; and strengths, traditions, and coping mechanisms that help people in their communities and countries meet those challenges.
Registration fees vary by country, based on research by the United Nations Development Programme. Registration opens Sept. 1, and all proceeds will support NBCC’s Mental Health Facilitator program. Learn more about the conference here.
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