Workforce

South Carolina’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities eliminated 248 administrative positions June 30, including 47 filled jobs and 201 vacant positions, according to a July 1 report from Fox Carolina. Here are three things to know: Becker’s has…

Nebraska’s $25.5 million behavioral health workforce initiative supported more than 800 trainees, expanded rural telebehavioral health services and helped organizations recruit and retain clinicians, according to a study published June 24 in Psychiatric Services. Researchers at the University of Nebraska…

The U.S. could face a steep decline in its adult psychiatry workforce over the next decade, with workforce adequacy projected to fall to 42.8% by 2037 as psychiatrist supply shrinks and demand rises, according to a study published May 5…

Forty-three U.S. universities were ranked among the top 100 in the world for psychiatry and psychology by U.S. News & World Report.   U.S. News’ “Best Global Universities” ranked 2,250 universities overall and by 51 academic subject areas. The subject rankings…

Psychiatry residency programs received more than 130,000 views on FREIDA in 2025, according to rankings based on medical student activity from Jan. 1. through Dec. 31.  FREIDA, the American Medical Association’s fellowship and residency database, includes more than 13,000 residency…

Maine has the highest concentration of mental health and substance abuse social workers in the U.S., with 131.46 workers per 100,000 residents, according to Becker’s analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data and 2025 U.S. population estimates from the…

Health systems are grappling with a troubling reality: In 2023, the total cost of violence to hospitals was estimated at $18.27 billion, including the cost of treatment for victims, security staffing and violence prevention training — and not accounting for…

California enacted new staffing rules for psychiatric hospitals June 1, establishing minimum nurse-to-patient ratios and financial penalties for facilities that fail to comply. The emergency regulations, issued by the California Department of Public Health, were developed after a San Francisco…

At NatCon, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s annual conference, thousands of mental health and substance use disorder professionals gathered to discuss the future of mental healthcare — and how to strengthen the workforce needed to support it. The numbers…

Though now fixtures of the healthcare workforce, the physician assistant and nurse practitioner professions started with only a single training program and a handful of graduates. Katie McLaughlin, PhD, executive director of the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health at…