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KMID : 0897520170220020113
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2017 Volume.22 No. 2 p.113 ~ p.119
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Report on Training and Current Situation of Mental Health Professionals
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Lee Sang-Hoon
Song Yul-Mai
Woo Ji-Yeon
Han Jeong-Mi
Ryu Mi-Sook
Hwang Tae-Yeon
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Abstract
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Objectives : Against the backdrop of reform of Mental Health Act in 2017, role of mental health specialists has been increasing in community mental health care. The number of mental health specialists has reached up to 14,101, but database for these human resources has not been built. Despite of many precedent researches, lack of database was a hurdle of accurate outcome of these studies. So, we did research on the training and current situation of mental health professionals.
Methods : The authors analyzed reports from 219 training institutions and a web-based survey for the current situation and needs of 3,396 mental health professionals.
Results : Gyeonggi province and Incheon showed 4.1 and 3.9 per 100,000 persons, the lowest in human resources per capita and 81% of idle manpower has a willing to be back to work. For the last 5 years, the number of new mental health nurses has decreased to 500 from 600. More than 55% of Clinical psychologists work at clinical setting. Continuing training programs were legislated and the highest need for the programs is about policy and law, psychiatric disorder, and ethics. There is a need for guideline for training institutions, training curriculum, and training tuition. Also, the examination for certification by council was suggested.
Conclusion : Reinforcement of nurses and rearrangement of psychologists to community setting is needed. The reform of Mental Health Act could be a momentum of improvement of training programs for mental health professionals. Continuing training programs and database system on mental health professionals, which is available from 2018, would be expected to be a corner stone of human resources management plan for community mental health services.
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KEYWORD
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Mental health, Community psychiatry, Manpower
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