'The numbers are horrifying': Texas schools have severe mental health care worker shortageBy Brian New Updated on: July 4, 2023 / 5:34 PM CDT / CBS Texas NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) –With the pandemic exacerbating mental health issues, the need for support for students in schools ...
"I'm not sure if we'll ever get to where we don't have any mental health care worker shortage in Texas," said Dr. David Lakey, the head of the Texas Child Mental Health Consortium. Lakey said one way the state is trying to make sure all students get th...
the assistant director of Medicaid programs for the Washington State Health Care Authority. “But not everyone’s Harborview. So there have been a number of different community health clinics that have good models of care.”
Worker shortages have long been an obstacle to accessing behavioral health services, which experts attribute in large part to problems with how providers are paid. Last fall the federal government estimated that more than one-third of Americans live in an area without enough providers available. Pro...
For its size, Indonesia has a severe shortage of mental health practitioners. The biggest economy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia has a population of 260,000 million but only 773 psychiatrists and 451 clinical psychologists.
acute mental healthnursing rolepractice developmentprofessional developmentworkforce issuesIntroduction This debate essay proposes possible remedies to the shortage of nurses in acute inpatient mental health settings and draws inspiration from a Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing editorial, Glascott...
The key argument of another longstanding research strand is that working long hours damages worker's well-being and mental health. According to the European Working Time Directive workers, with few exceptions, should not work more than 48 h a week on average. This to some extent aligns with...
Shortage of mental illness care leading to health crisis https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567477160/how-the-loss-of-u-s-psychiatric-hospitals-led-to-a-mental-health-crisis Here is another shocker…Government health care doesn’t work in the US. Our system is broken and only getting worse....
Healthcare IT News sat down with Weisberg to discuss what telehealth cannot do to cure the therapist shortage, how virtual reality works in mental healthcare, why she believes VR is the goldilocks answer to the staffing problem, and how virtual reality can give access to alternatives to...
Community health workers (CHWs) have demonstrated effectiveness in delivering EBTs; however, the integration of CHWs in the U.S. mental health system remains limited. This Comment presents key recommendations for optimizing CHW integration into the menta