The Behavioral Health Workforce Crisis: Past, Present, and Future

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW
• July 1st, 2019
• de-professionalization, education and training, family peer support, mental health workforce, psychiatrist shortage, recruitment challenges, social work, workforce training
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First on the list of topics for this issue of Behavioral Health News was “The Workforce Crisis Today.” That’s interesting because the workforce “crisis” is anything but new. For example, when I first entered this field during the height of deinstitutionalization in New York—the early...