Title

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES NEEDED FOR LEADING CLAS STANDARDS COMPETENT ORGANIZATIONS: A DELPHI STUDY

Format Type

Plenary

Format Type

Paper

Start Date

14-1-2021 3:00 PM

End Date

14-1-2021 3:20 PM

Abstract

Before this study, the core leadership competencies executive behavioral health leaders must demonstrate to lead a CLAS Standards competent organization and workforce were unknown. The purposes of the presentation are two. First, to discuss a qualitative Delphi dissertation research study identifying the core leadership competencies executive behavioral health leaders must demonstrate to lead CLAS Standards competent organizations and workforces effectively. Second, to discuss what the study meant to the growth of the lead author. Twenty-one expert behavioral health leaders located in the United States participated in the study (N = 7 for the pilot study and N = 14 for full panel study). Analyses of data gathered from experts across two rounds of the pilot study and four rounds of the main study revealed 15 leadership competencies were very or extremely critical to leading a CLAS Standards competent organization. While 11 of the 15 identified competencies were very similar to existing competency frameworks identified by the HLA and NCHL, four unique competencies emerged: cultural competence and adaptation, collaboration and teamwork, care planning and care coordination, and systems oriented practice, with the two most critical competencies being (a) cultural competence and adaption, and (b) collaboration and teamwork.

Keywords

CLAS standards, core leadership competencies, executive behavioral health leaders

Comments

Results are partially from research conducted for Dr. DuMont's dissertation.

ORCID ID

orcid.org/0000-0003-4832-5253

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BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES NEEDED FOR LEADING CLAS STANDARDS COMPETENT ORGANIZATIONS: A DELPHI STUDY

Before this study, the core leadership competencies executive behavioral health leaders must demonstrate to lead a CLAS Standards competent organization and workforce were unknown. The purposes of the presentation are two. First, to discuss a qualitative Delphi dissertation research study identifying the core leadership competencies executive behavioral health leaders must demonstrate to lead CLAS Standards competent organizations and workforces effectively. Second, to discuss what the study meant to the growth of the lead author. Twenty-one expert behavioral health leaders located in the United States participated in the study (N = 7 for the pilot study and N = 14 for full panel study). Analyses of data gathered from experts across two rounds of the pilot study and four rounds of the main study revealed 15 leadership competencies were very or extremely critical to leading a CLAS Standards competent organization. While 11 of the 15 identified competencies were very similar to existing competency frameworks identified by the HLA and NCHL, four unique competencies emerged: cultural competence and adaptation, collaboration and teamwork, care planning and care coordination, and systems oriented practice, with the two most critical competencies being (a) cultural competence and adaption, and (b) collaboration and teamwork.