A lack of supervisors in Texas impedes potential mental health workers from entering the profession.
It was early 2022, and Kiany Casillas was in a panic. It had been two years since she and her newborn daughter had followed her husband from California to the Texas Panhandle , and during that time, she had enrolled at Texas Tech University Health Science Center to pursue a career as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.
San Antonio church leaders train to serve as mental health counselors A recent workforce survey done by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council found that over 75% of 10,233 mental health providers who responded indicated they were not supervising anyone currently. Over 50% of 7,600 respondents said they were not interested in being supervisors.
San Antonio’s mental health crisis response team will respond to 911 calls 24/7 The career path to becoming a mental health provider is long and involves years of schooling and tests, but one of the primary time consumers for students is the internship program. Most of the time, when students near their clinical hours requirement, they are on their own to find a supervisor if the school doesn’t already have a system in place.
With too few mental health providers in Texas, more patients turn to primary care Diane Smedley, an assistant professor for the department of psychology and counseling at the University of Texas at Tyler, said this is common in the mental health field. “Many get the supervision license and use it briefly and then don’t use it again. Many get it and only take on one supervisee.,” Smedley said. “So the numbers might show two interns to every supervisor, but that’s not how it actually plays out.
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