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Behavioral healthcare: Closing the gap

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, June 3, 2004

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Behavioral health experts say there's a hole between education and practice of the behavioral health workforce. One factor is that staff without educational degrees receive insufficient training but often have the most contact with consumers. In an effort to close the gap between what counselors, psychiatrists, nurses, and psychologists are taught and what they experience in practice, the Annapolis Coalition on Behavioral Health Workforce Education has implemented change strategies to improve the quality and relevance of education. The group's founding organizations, the American College of Mental Health Administration and the Academic Behavioral Health Consortium convened a conference in 2001 to discuss education for graduate and non-graduate behavioral healthcare staff. Since that meeting, the group has written and distributed numerous papers at national conferences and formed working groups with professional and advocacy organizations. The coalition has also created a Web site to promote its cause (www.annapoliscoalition.org). The group will meet later this month to address core competencies in behavioral health.

Source: Mental Health Weekly

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