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Public-Academic Partnerships: The Beck Initiative: A Partnership to Implement Cognitive Therapy in a Community Behavioral Health System

When this work was done, Dr. Stirman was with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where Dr. Beck is affiliated. She is currently with the National Center for PTSD, Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Women's Health Sciences Division (116B), 150 S. Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02130 (e-mail: shannon.w.stirman@ gmail.com). The other authors are affiliated with the Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services, Philadelphia. Lisa B. Dixon, M.D., M.P.H., and Brian Hepburn, M.D., are editors of this column.

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.

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