6. GMH Text/Journal

GMH--Edited Texts

There is a steady and growing stream or edited texts and journals related to GMH, crucial for training-practice and providing colleagues from around the world with  platforms to share their research, implementation experiences, and perspectives.

Note: August 2026:  We would grateful for  help in updating these lists. Please contact us if you could help. MCAresources@gmail.com

Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery (2011, edited by Richard Mollica)

Community Mental Health: Putting Policy into Practice Globally (2011, edited by Graham Thornicroft et al.)

21st Century Global Mental  Health (2013, edited by Eliot Sorel)

Global Mental Health: Principles and Practice (2013, edited by Vikram Patel et al.)

Public Mental Health: Global Perspectives (2013, edited by Lee Knifton, Neil Quinn)

Improving Mental Health Care: The Global Challenge (2013, edited by Graham Thornicroft et al.)

Proceedings of the 30th International Congress of Psychology (convened 2012, published 2014):

--Psychology Serving Humanity (volume one): Majority World Psychology

--Psychology Serving Humanity(volume two): Western Psychology

Global Mental Health Trials (2014, edited by Graham Thornicroft and VIkram Patel)

Essentials of Global Mental Health (2014, edited by Samuel Okpaku)

Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives (2015, edited by Brandon Kohrt and Emily Mendenhall)

A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice: Seeing the Unseen (2015, edited by Craig Katz and Jan Schuetz-Mueller

Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health (2015, edited by Laurence Kirmayer, Robert Lemelson, and Constance Cummings) 

Routledge Handbook of Global Mental Health Nursing: Evidence, Practice, and Empowerment (2016, edited by Edilma Yearwood and Vicki Hines-Martin)

The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health (2017, by Ross White, Sumeet Jain, David Orr, and Ursula Read)

Global Mental Health: Prevention and Promotion (2017, edited by Sabine Bahrer-Kohler and Francisco Javier Carod-Artal)

Related Texts (among many):
Rich, G., Gielen, U., & Takooshian, H.  (2017). (Eds.) Internationalizing theTeaching of Psychology.

Rubin, N., & Flores, R. (2020). (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights.

Hagenaars, P., Plavšić, M., Sveaass, N., Wagner, U., & Tony Wainwright, T. (2020). Eds.). Human Rights Education for Psychologists.

Congress, E., Takooshian, H., & Asper, A. (2020). (Eds.). Behavioral Science in the Global Arena--Volume One: Addressing Timely Issues at the United Nations and Beyond. Information Age Publishing.

Congress, E., Meister, D., Osborn, S.,  & Takooshian, H. (Eds.). (2022). Behavioral Science in the Global Arena--Volume Two: Global Mental, Spiritual, and Social Health. Information Age Publishing.

Congress, E., Meister, D., Osborn, S.,  & Takooshian, H. (Eds.). (2022). Behavioral Science in the Global Arena--Volume Three: Global Health Trends and Issues. Information Age Publishing.

Going Global: Why Psychologists Should Meet a World of Need (2023), edited by Craig Shealy, Merry Bullock, and Shagufa Kapadia, American Psychological Association; see the pdf of the TOC and Introduction

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 GMH--Special Issues of Journals

Lancet. (2018). Lancet Commission on GMH and sustainable development.  392(10,157), 1553-1598.

From reducing the treatment gap to reducing the global burden of mental disorders

Families, Systems and Health will publish a special issue on global mental health (in process, 2018? American Psychological Association journal)

Mental Health: A Forgotten Facet of Healthcare (June 2017)(special issue on MH/GMH), Medicus Mundi Switzerland, Bulletin 141

Academic Psychiatry (various GMH articles published in 2015-2016; use "GMH" in the search engine)

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences (special section on GMH--five "editorials") (December 2016)

Global Mental Health (open access journal on GMH, first issue in 2014)

Transcultural Psychiatry (December 2014); special issue on GMH

Intervention: Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work, and Counselling  in Areas of Armed Conflict  (December 2014); special issue on New Frontiers in Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Low Resource and Conflict Affected Settings

International Health (March 2013); special issue on GMH

PLOS Medicine (2013, 2012, 2009-2010); special issues/articles focusing on GMH-related areas

Harvard Review of Psychiatry (January 2012); special issue on GMH

The Lancet (October 2011 and September 2007); special issues on GMH