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February 28, 2026Psychiatric Services2 citations

Public Mental Health Workers’ Policy Recommendations to Address the Behavioral Health Workforce Shortage

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EGElyse GanssVRVanesa A. Mora RingleTSTemma Schaechter

Key Points

  • The aim is to gather input from public mental health workers on how to increase the behavioral health workforce.
  • Qualitative interviews with public mental health workers
  • Collection of recommendations for policy changes
  • Analysis of themes from responses
  • Suggestions for improving workforce recruitment and retention.
  • Identification of key barriers to entering the behavioral health field.
  • Recommendations for enhancing training and support for new workers.

Abstract

The authors sought to elicit public mental health workers’ recommendations for increasing the behavioral health workforce.

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Ganss et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a286c90a974eb0d3c02024https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20250259
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