Public-academic partnerships: the Beck Initiative: a partnership to implement cognitive therapy in a community behavioral health system.
The Beck Initiative is a partnership between researchers and clinicians at a large university and an urban behavioral health managed care system. Both partners share a commitment to ensuring that consumers in the community have access to competently delivered, individualized, evidence-based mental health care and that the providers who serve them have the support they need to deliver high-quality evidence-based treatments. Central features of the program are individualized training and consultation in cognitive therapy for each provider agency and policies to promote the sustainability of the initiative and its continuing evolution to meet the needs of providers and consumers.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. shannon.w.stirman@gmail.com
Shannon Wiltsey
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Stirman
Regina
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Buchhofer
J Bryce
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McLaulin
Arthur C
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Evans
Aaron T
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Beck
D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006282:Health Personnel; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D016730:Program Development; D012108:Research Personnel; D014495:Universities