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The Mental Health Workforce:
Who's Meeting California's Needs?

To date, the mental and behavioral health care workforce has been woefully understudied. In part, this lack of attention is a product of mental and behavioral health care existing as a parallel system of services not fully integrated into general health care. Loose definitions of professions and scopes of practice within the mental and behavioral health workforce exacerbate these problems by impeding scholarship about key issues. Even rudimentary definitions and data to describe practice patterns or educational participation are lacking. This study constituted a first step in understanding California's mental and behavioral health care workforce.

The report profiled the psychiatry, psychology, marriage and family therapy, licensed clinical social work, psychiatric nursing and significant clinical support professions in California. Included in the report were occupational profiles and estimates of the current workforce, a demand forecast of workforce need through 2010, a profile of the ecology of mental and behavioral health care work in California, and recommendations for needed data collection and further study.

To download the Executive Summary click here.

To download the full report click here.

To download the chartbook click here.

To download the errata click here.

To view the press release click here.

Staff members of this project included:

Tina McRee, MA
Catherine Dower, JD
Bram Briggance, MA
Jenny Vance
Dennis Keane MPH
Edward H. O'Neil, PhD

This project was funded by the California HealthCare Foundation and The California Endowment.

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