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This study addresses human resource development issues for the State of Washington by examining relationships among clinical staff characteristics such as sex, educational level, discipline of academic study, race-ethnic group, and years of mental health treatment experience, and relationships between these staff characteristics and characteristics of staff caseloads, primarily percent of caseload falling into various state priority populations: chronically mentally ill, children, elderly, and minority groups. Results are interpreted in terms of past and future state goals for the mental health service system.
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Peterson, P.D., Cox, G.B. Community mental health staff utilization in washington state: Characteristics and target groups. Community Ment Health J 24, 65–82 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00755054
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00755054