Public-Academic Partnerships: The Thresholds-Dartmouth Partnership and Research on Shared Decision Making

doi:10.1176/appi.ps.60.2.142

Psychiatr Serv 60:142-144, February 2009
doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.60.2.142
© 2009 American Psychiatric Association



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Public-Academic Partnerships: The Thresholds-Dartmouth Partnership and Research on Shared Decision Making

Robert E. Drake, M.D., Ph.D., Sandra M. Wilkniss, Ph.D., Rochelle L. Frounfelker, M.S.S.W., M.P.H., Rob Whitley, Ph.D., Anthony M. Zipple, Sc.D., M.B.A., Gregory J. McHugo, Ph.D. and Gary R. Bond, Ph.D.

Dr. Drake, Dr. Whitley, and Dr. McHugo are affiliated with the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, 2 Whipple Pl., Suite 202, Lebanon, NH 03766 (e-mail: robert.e.drake{at}dartmouth.edu). Dr. Wilkniss, Ms. Frounfelker, and Dr. Zipple are with Thresholds Rehabilitation Centers in Chicago. Dr. Bond is with the Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Lisa B. Dixon, M.D., M.P.H., and Brian Hepburn, M.D., are editors of this column.

Thresholds Rehabilitation Centers is one of the largest providersof psychiatric rehabilitation services in the United States,and the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center is a highly regardedteam of rehabilitation researchers. This column describes effortsto build upon the long-standing collaborative relationship betweenThresholds (community partner) and Dartmouth (academic partner)to implement and study shared decision making in a communitymental health care setting that serves an ethnoracially diversepopulation. Shared decision making encompasses a client-centeredapproach in which client and practitioner are equal partners.This joint project incorporates modern information technology,decision science, cultural competence, stakeholder collaboration,outcomes research, and training. The partnership itself providesan exemplar of shared decision making.

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