# UW ALACRITY Center for Psychosocial Interventions Research

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · 2020 · $165,581

## Abstract

ABSTRACT. The UW ALACRITY Center purpose is to address critical problems in the implementation of
evidence-based psychosocial interventions (EBPIs) for underserved communities as they are delivered in
primary care medicine settings. Per a recent IOM report on psychosocial intervention standards, access to
EBPIs is hampered by (1) poor clinician training, (2) intervention design complexity, and (3) insufficient support
to sustain quality of care. We will attempt to solve these problems by creating a team of researchers from
human centered design (Drs. Fogarty, Gonzalez, Munson, Popovic), education (Raue, Popovic),
implementation science (Drs. Bennett and Lyon), psychosocial interventions (Drs. Aisenberg, Arean, Kaysen,
Raue), health services research (Dr. Fortney, Ratzliff and Unutzer) and research methods (Dr. Atkins and
Hoeft). The Center represents a unique partnership between the School of Medicine’s Departments of
Psychiatry/Behavioral Sciences and Family Medicine, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
the Department of Communications, and the School of Social Work. The Center also bridges UW’s many
resources: CoMotion (UW’s center for health technology innovation), the Institute for Translational Health
Sciences (the UW CTSA), the AIMS Center (UW implementation and training center for collaborative care),
and the WWAMI-region Practice Research Network (WPRN, a collaborative group of primary care practices
through the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho to facilitate innovative community-
based research). The Administrative Core will serve as the communication hub between center cores, our two
advisory boards, and will oversee the solicitation and selection of R03 level proof of concept studies. The
Methods Core (MC) will provide research infrastructure to the projects. Each project will use our Discover,
Design, Build and Test framework to address clinician capacity, intervention usability and intervention
sustainability. The MC will also compile data from these projects to create a Typology of EBPI Targets and a
Matrix of EBPI Modifications that will be shared with other researchers within and outside of UW through our
online research community. Research projects will collect a common core of outcomes to determine the impact
of modifying EBPI targets on clinicians’ quality delivery of care and patient-reported outcomes. The first R34
project proposes to improve clinician EPBI capacity by designing and building an Intelligent Tutor System
based on adaptive training. The second R34 project will partner with the WPRN to simplify problem-solving
therapy (PST), using user-centered design principles. The third R34 project will partner with the Washington
Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) to develop an electronic health record-supported behavioral
health module and registry to support sustained clinician skill in delivering PST in primary care. All three
projects, and future R03s, will test the effects...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10167248
- **Project number:** 3P50MH115837-03S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
- **Principal Investigator:** Patricia A. Arean
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $165,581
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2018-05-08 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10167248

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10167248, UW ALACRITY Center for Psychosocial Interventions Research (3P50MH115837-03S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10167248. Licensed CC0.

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