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E-Newsletter • April 2024 |
Editor's E-Note
The increasingly severe shortage of behavioral health providers is the subject of a new paper published in the American Psychiatric Association’s Psychiatric Services that calls for the need for a range of federal policies.
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— Kate Jackson, editor |
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