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Team Leadership: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the Aftermath of COVID-19

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A multidisciplinary behavioral health team is necessary to deliver the complex array of services needed in community mental health settings. In the wake of multiple traumas caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the national discussion of diversity inequity exposed by the pandemic, the diversity inherent in multidisciplinary behavioral health teams serves as a microcosm of how to deal with conflict in our society as a whole. In response to the pandemic, we have seen the people on the front lines including healthcare workers of all disciplines and many others assume leadership roles including efforts to promote diversity and inclusion.

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Redd, J.L., Suggs, H. (2022). Team Leadership: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the Aftermath of COVID-19. In: Sowers, W.E., McQuistion, H.L., Ranz, J.M., Feldman, J.M., Runnels, P.S. (eds) Textbook of Community Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10239-4_13

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