RESUMO
In May 2004, the Annapolis Coalition on Behavioral Health Workforce Education convened a national meeting on the identification and assessment of competencies. The Conference on Behavioral Health Workforce Competencies brought leading consumer and family advocates together with other experts on competencies from diverse disciplines and specialties in the fields of both mental health care and substance use disorders treatment. Aided by experts on competency development in business and medicine, conference participants have generated 10 consensus recommendations to guide the future development of workforce competencies in behavioral health. This article outlines those recommendations. A collaborative effort to identify a set of core or common competencies is envisioned as a key strategy for advancing behavioral health education, training, and other workforce development initiatives.
Assuntos
Medicina do Comportamento/educação , Competência Clínica/normas , Serviços de Saúde Mental/normas , Medicina do Comportamento/normas , Comportamento Cooperativo , Coalizão em Cuidados de Saúde , Humanos , Modelos Educacionais , Modelos Organizacionais , Cultura Organizacional , Administração em Saúde Pública/educação , Administração em Saúde Pública/normas , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Estados Unidos , Recursos HumanosRESUMO
Building on the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, this article highlights the twofold crisis in children's mental health: a critical shortage of practitioners in child-serving disciplines, and a mismatch between training and preparation and actual practice and service delivery. The authors discuss the challenges of transforming the workforce in the context of changing population demographics, the prevalence of complex childhood disorders, and emerging evidence-based practices. The authors conclude with recommendations targeted to states, community agencies, universities, professional associations, and advocates.
