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ArticleAdministration and policy in mental health2025

A Qualitative Review of Community Health Workers' Training, Supervision, and Service Delivery Needs.

Maya Mroué Boustani, Stacy L Frazier, Diana Marin, Dina Bashoura

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Article in Administration and policy in mental health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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4 authors.

Maya Mroué BoustaniLoma Linda University, California, USA. mboustani@llu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7739-7857
Stacy L FrazierFlorida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
Diana MarinLoma Linda University, California, USA.
Dina BashouraLoma Linda University, California, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Community Health Workers (CHW) are part of an emerging workforce in the field of mental health, but few studies have examined their training, supervision, and service delivery needs in the United States. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with CHWs (n = 9) and their administrators (n = 6) affiliated with a medical center and school districts in Southern California. Guiding questions focused on CHW roles, work-related stress, clinical decision making, and professional development. Findings pointed to high rates of stress, primarily attributed to role ambiguity, and need (and desire) for more training and supervision related to mental health interventions, and more systematic structures for data-informed decision-making. Discussion provides reflections and recommendations to the field about ways to support this growing and critical workforce.

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Community Health WorkersAdultCaliforniaFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedOccupational StressProfessional RoleQualitative ResearchCommunity health workerLay health workforceMental healthSupervisionTraining

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PMID40167591
PMCPMC12628493

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