101759: The Addiction Treatment Workforce

About the Course:

This hour-long presentation, from SAMHSA’s Recovery Month webcast series, describes challenges to workforce development in the substance abuse treatment field. It presents strategies and incentives to recruit and retain professionals in the addiction treatment workforce.

Journal/Publisher:

SAMHSA

Publication Date:

August 2, 2006

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially addiction counselors, psychologists, mental health counselors, and social workers who seek knowledge about the addiction treatment workforce. It is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Describe the demographic makeup of the current addiction treatment workforce and discuss the turnover rate.

2. Discuss motivations for both entering and leaving the addiction treatment field.

3. Identify initiatives related to retaining and recruiting addiction clinicians.