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Staff Retention in Behavioral Health: Your Questions Answered

Relias

Recent research has shown that in locations designated as Health Care Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), only 28% of mental healthcare needs are being met. A variety of factors have contributed to the behavioral and mental healthcare workforce shortage, making mental health provider recruitment and retention particularly challenging.

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What to Expect When a Child Discharges From a Children’s Psychiatric Hospital

KVC

When a child is discharged from a children’s psychiatric hospital, they will likely experience a range of emotions and expectations for life after their hospital stay. Choosing to admit a child for inpatient psychiatric care is never easy and it can be an overwhelming decision to make.

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Factors that Affect Behavioral Health Provider Retention

Relias

In fact, recent research has shown that in locations designated as Health Care Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), only 28% of mental healthcare needs are being met. 10,470 marriage and family therapists. Psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatric physician assistants: 17%. Marriage and family therapists: 14%.

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Staff Retention in Behavioral Health: Your Questions Answered

Relias

Recent research has shown that in locations designated as Health Care Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), only 28% of mental healthcare needs are being met. A variety of factors have contributed to the behavioral and mental healthcare workforce shortage, making mental health provider recruitment and retention particularly challenging.

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Challenges That Lead to Provider Burnout Among Clinicians

Relias

While the strain that COVID-19 put on the healthcare system for over two years is partly to blame for these numbers, it is not the only reason for an increase in burnout. The job of a healthcare provider is stressful and can lead anyone on the road to burnout.

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10 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About Social Workers

KVC

There are more clinically trained social workers than psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses combined. In fact, social workers are often the only mental health care providers in many rural and remote communities. The job is not a typical 8-hour workday . There is no typical day for a social worker.

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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician. In this role, I work in the homes and communities of families to provide therapy services to young people at risk of hospitalization or being placed out of the home for psychiatric reasons.

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