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Section VI: National Mental Health Statistics
Table 5. Percentage of clinically trained mental health personnel, by discipline,
employment status, and number of employment settings for specified years
| Employment Setting |
Discipline and Year |
| Psychiatry1 1998 |
Psychology2 2002 |
Social Work3 2000 |
Psychiatric Nursing 2000 |
Counseling4 2002 |
Marriage/ Family Therapy5 1999 |
Psycho- Social Rehab. 1994 |
School Psychology 20006 |
| Full time (N) |
(740) |
(50,308) |
(49,618) |
(12,920) |
(25,744) |
(25,346) |
|
(26,611) |
| One setting |
40.0 |
49.8 |
|
64.6 |
80.0 |
70.3 |
77.5 |
94.0 |
| Two or more settings |
60.0 |
50.2 |
|
35.4 |
20.0 |
29.2 |
22.5 |
N/A |
| Part time (N) |
(160) |
(16,062) |
(23,350) |
(3,686) |
(86,187) |
(21,765) |
|
(4,667) |
| One setting |
65.3 |
66.3 |
|
76.2 |
65.0 |
81.8 |
54.8 |
38.1 |
| Two or more settings |
34.7 |
33.7 |
|
23.8 |
35.0 |
17.7 |
45.2 |
61.9 |
1 Respondents to the 1998 American Psychiatric
Association National Survey of Psychiatric Practice currently active in
psychiatry (N = 976);76 psychiatrists had missing information on employment
status. Full time is defined as 35 or more hours per week.
2
Total is based on an estimate of the clinically active psychologists.
Percentages are derived from proportions in the APA Directory Survey.
3 Data based on National Association of Social Workers (NASW) PRN survey,
2000; 25 percent of regular members reported a combi nation of full-time
and part-time employment, and data from these members are not included
in this chart.
4 Data based on National Board for Certified
Counselors (NBCC) National Study of the Professional Counselors (2000).
Full time is defined as 35 or more hours per week.
5 Data
based on 2000 American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
PRN project funded by Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Data were
collected from a random sample of AAMFT clinical members with an 82 percent
response rate of eligible participants. The total of 44,225 marriage and
family therapists reporting settings was distributed into employment settings
based on data from a survey of marriage and family therapists in 15 States
by Doherty and Simmons (1995).
6 Source: Thomas (2000). |
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