Manuel Paris

TL;DR: The construct of burnout, methodological and measurement issues, its prevalence in the mental health workforce, correlates of burnouts, and interventions to decrease it are examined and the implications for provider organizations and recommendations for future research are identified.

TL;DR: This paper placed cultural concepts in ecological perspective and offered practice recommendations that follow from specific cultural beliefs, and these recommendations are intended to offer concrete approaches to care that are consistent with a contextual understanding of individuals of Hispanic heritage.

TL;DR: A framework to guide workforce policy and practice is presented, emphasizing the need to train other health care providers as well as individuals in recovery to address behavioral health needs; strengthen recruitment, retention, and training of specialist behavioral health providers; and improve the financial and technical assistance infrastructure to better support and sustain the workforce.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the individual treatments delivered in Spanish were both attractive to and effective with this heterogeneous group of Hispanic adults, but the differential effectiveness of motivational enhancement therapy may be limited to those whose primary substance use problem is alcohol and may be fairly modest in magnitude.

TL;DR: A rapidly growing Latino population challenges the U.S. mental health system despite a high service need, significant disparities in access to care have resulted in patterns of low utilization and frequent dropout as mentioned in this paper.