�Almost hundred percent of American Counseling Association (ACA) members world Health Organization completed a Capella University survey on military mental health issues have taken action to increase their understanding of post-combat and re-entry issues of returning servicemembers. The results also indicated that ACA survey respondents feel better disposed to help post-combat servicemembers than other mental health professionals wHO took the survey.
ACA members finger better prepared to help servicemembers The ACA member results uncover some interesting contrasts and parallels with other mental health professionals who took the survey. Highlights let in (all statements refer to those world Health Organization took the Capella University "Joining Forces America" military-mental health review):
- Eighty-four percent of ACA members feel prepared to help post-combat servicemembers, compared to 61 percent of other mental health professionals.
- Nearly all ACA members (98 per centum) have taken at least one step to better their agreement of post-combat and reentry issues, compared to 75 percent of other mental health professionals.
- Neither ACA members nor other mental health professionals feel the mental health community as a hale is prepared to help returning servicemembers. Seventy-three percent of ACA members and 64 percentage of other mental wellness professionals said they believe the mental health community is not prepared.
- Only 6 pct of ACA members aforesaid they had little or no knowledge of post-combat psychological conditions, compared to 27 per centum of other mental wellness professionals.
"I'm not surprised with these results," aforementioned Richard Yep, CAE, executive director director of the ACA. "The mental health necessarily of returning servicemembers and their families have been a strong focus of our organization for several years now. We've made a point of bringing this takings to our members' care and ar committed to helping provide counselors with the resources they need to address this development challenge. We've offered multiple educational roger Sessions on this topic at our conferences over the past respective years, and also offer ongoing access to publications and continuing education courses on our Web site. In addition, we have advocated for federal pentateuch that will provide military troops with greater access to genial health precaution." One of ACA's 19 Divisions-the Association for Counselors and Educators in Government-represents counselors and educators in government and military related agencies.
"We're pleased to have ACA participation in this survey, and we applaud the many efforts they hold made to focus attention on this issue," aforesaid Chris Cassirer, acting president of Capella University. "Like the ACA, Capella has a potent interest in the takings of military mental wellness because mental health professionals and military personnel typify two of our largest groups of students. We believe a big part of the challenge in meeting servicemembers' mental wellness needs is making certain there are enough qualified professionals to address the need. Our online guidance and psychological science programs-including the only on-line CAPREP-accredited master's-level counseling specializations-make it more feasible to pursue advanced degrees in the mental health cademic
