Interstate licensure portability has become a significant issue for US healthcare providers. Healthcare compacts have emerged as a promising solution to facilitate interstate licensure portability for many healthcare specialties while maintaining individual state autonomy.
SECTION 1C - Broader context showing portability is profession-wide healthcare crisis, not just counseling.
Despite the growth of telemental health offerings, issues of licensing portability continue to create barriers to broader access to mental health care.
SECTION 1C - Identifies licensure portability as challenge/barrier. Key for challenges section.
Professional organizations integrated the importance of professional identity in training, higher education, and professional development (CACREP, 2009). Eventually, some state licensing boards began to require a counselor identity that was based on CACREP standards for individuals to become licensed professional counselors.
SECTION 1A - Connects PI to credentialing/regulation. Supports "regulation" and "training standards" as PI components.