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Article: Improving our workforce: higher salaries are a must to motivate more people to join behavioral healthcare's ranks.(PERSPECTIVES)
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- Behavioral Healthcare
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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The recruitment and retention of staff, managers, and leaders are extremely critical problems for behavioral healthcare. The promise of recovery is an empty promise if a sufficient and competent workforce isn't available to effectively treat mental illnesses and addictions. On-the-job training is always necessary, but it isn't an adequate response to the recruitment crisis. Salaries must reflect the importance and complexity of the work, as well as be competitive enough to attract and keep skilled staff.
National efforts to address behavioral healthcare's workforce crisis primarily have focused on the values that drive mental health and addictions treatment and ...