U.S. Behavioral Health Workforce At 1.2 Million Professionals
Nationwide, the behavioral health workforce includes about 1.2 million health care professionals. Within this workforce, more than 677,000 are behavioral health specialists, and over 400,000 are primary care professionals who prescribe behavioral health medications. More than 172,000 are in other specialties and have prescribed behavioral health medications.
The behavioral health specialists the team was able to track includes people licensed as psychiatrists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, addiction psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, and marriage …