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Aligning training, regulation, and payment policy to advance the behavioral health workforce.

Brianna Lombardi, Lisa de Saxe Zerden, Erin Fraher

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Article in Health affairs scholar, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Brianna LombardiBehavioral Health Workforce Research Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3146-496X
Lisa de Saxe ZerdenBehavioral Health Workforce Research Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4436-4407
Erin FraherBehavioral Health Workforce Research Center, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3592-8100

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The United States is facing an unprecedented behavioral health crisis, exacerbated by workforce shortages that limit access to treatment. In response, states are attempting to increase access to behavioral health services by developing new professions and roles and expanding the functions of the existing behavioral health workforce. Yet, training, regulation, and payment policies are often not aligned to effectively deploy the workforce to serve in new or expanded roles to meet behavioral health needs. We envision training, regulation, and payment as a three-legged stool that supports the health care workforce. In this commentary, we discuss why each leg of the stool is essential, offer examples of how misalignment occurs in the behavioral health workforce, and provide an example of how states can align these three factors to meet community behavioral health needs.

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behavioral healthbehavioral health workforcehealth policyhealth workforce

Identifiers

PMID39811071
PMCPMC11726773

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