title: [Mental health professionals' representations of their practices in Rabat, Morocco].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The main challenges faced by the mental health system in Morocco are insufficient quality of care and limited human resources. Training of mental health providers therefore constitutes a way of improving quality of care.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted 22 semi-structured interviews with mental health practitioners, mental health senior managers and psychiatry teachers in order to identify training needs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The main findings were the lack of communication, collaboration and updated knowledge especially concerning diagnosis, psychotropic drug prescriptions and addiction medicine. We also identified specific training needs for mental health specialists, such as geriatric psychiatry and paediatric psychiatry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Consequently, better training in these areas would contribute to the success of managed care strategies in primary healthcare facilities.
authors.forename: Houda
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: El Kirat
authors.forename: Hind
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Filali
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services; D009018:Morocco; D000078329:Workforce