Table 1. Changes in supply of clinically trained mental health personnel by discipline and total number of hours worked for specified years
Hours worked by discipline 1982 1983 1984 1988 1989 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Psychiatry 1  
35 hours or more  
Less than 35 hours  
Total (excluding child psychiatry) 25,784 26,476   31,173 32,203   34,088 34,970 35,330  
Total (including child psychiatry) 29,018 29,853   35,249 36,482   39,197 40,352 40,731  
Psychology  
35 hours or more   39,955   48,785   57,948   56,224   59,641  
Less than 35 hours   4,725   7,745   11,869   16,7942   17,8152  
Total   44,580   56,530   69,817   73,0182   77, 4562  
Social Work  
35 hours or more   65,880  
Less than 35 hours   15,857  
Total   81,737 86,378 88,889 90,303 93,245   96,407
(192,814)3		  
Psychiatric Nursing  
35 hours or more   7,703   4,248   11,294  
Less than 35 hours   2,331   1,362   4,036  
Total   10,0344 3,4975   5,0335   5,6105 6,8005 15,3306  
Counseling7  
35 hours or more   24,864
Less than 35 hours   83,240
Total 61,100   96,263 108,104
Marriage and Family Therapy8  
35 hours or more   31,203   29,852  
Less than 35 hours   15,024   14,373  
Total   46,227   44,225  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation  
35 hours or more   29,435   84,100  
Less than 35 hours   5,565   15,900  
Total   20,909   35,000   100,000  
School Psychology9  
35 hours or more  
Less than 35 hours  
Total   21,012 21,693 22,214 23,782 24,804 25,870   26,482 31,278
1 The American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the United States includes physicians who are self-identified as psychiatrists and/ or child psychiatrists. Psychiatric residents and inactive psychiatrists have been excluded. Numbers are revised from those reported in Mental Health, United States 1998.
2 These are clinically trained psychologists. Estimates based on trained psychologists reporting hours worked.
3 The number in parentheses is the total clinically trained social workers from a conservative estimate that the 96, 407 National Association of Social Work-ers (NASW) members in 1998 are only 50 percent of the total social work workforce.
4 Estimates for 1984 and 1996 were based on employed nurses with graduate degrees in psychiatric nursing, not on the population of certified nurses. In 1988 it was estimated that there were 10, 567 such employed nurses; in 1984 there were 10, 034.
5 Excluding 1994, these figures represent all certified specialists in psychiatric and mental health nursing, not just those employed.
6 A total of 17, 318 were trained with 1,988 (11.5 percent) estimated to be non-employed.
7 Data from Nation Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) 1998 State Counseling Licensor Board Survey as well as NBCC certificant data and American Counseling Association membership data.
8Total represents clinically active marriage and family therapists. The total was distributed into full-and part-time based on data from a survey of mar-riage and family therapists in 15 States by Doherty and Simmons (1995).
9 SOURCE: Thomas, A. (April 2000) Report to the National Association of School Psychologists' Delegate Assembly on the State Demographic Survey. Bethesda, MD, National Association of School Psychologists

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