Mission, Vision, and Values

Our Mission

We aim to promote the development and integration of evidence-based psychological interventions in inpatient psychiatric settings.

Our Vision

The Inpatient Psychological Care Collaborative (IPCC) will achieve its mission by:

Fostering Community

  • Providing a platform for practitioners of psychological interventions in inpatient psychiatric settings to share ideas, provide resources, lend support, and discuss strategies to improve the care of and outcomes for people hospitalized on inpatient psychiatric units.
  • Maintaining a membership network of providers of psychological services in inpatient settings from which practitioners can reach out to one another for support and collaboration.

Expanding Access to Psychological Interventions

  • Maintaining a repository of resources to facilitate measurement-based psychological care in the inpatient setting.
  • Offering pro bono consultation to practitioners and administrators working to promote the integration of evidence-based psychological interventions in the inpatient setting.
  • Providing educational materials, webinars, and expert talks to disseminate knowledge and train professionals in delivering effective psychological care.

Advancing the Standard of Care in Inpatient Psychiatric Settings

  • Maintaining a repository of research findings pertaining to the integration of psychological services in the inpatient setting.
  • Supporting and promoting research into the integration of psychological services in the inpatient setting by advocating for allocation of research funding in this area, providing methodological and statistical consultation for researchers working on related research, and facilitating networking among scholars to advance research on this topic.

Our Core Values

We value the provision of evidence-based psychological services in inpatient psychiatric settings.

We embrace people with diverse perspectives, viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds.

We support interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork.

We encourage the delivery of trauma-informed care.

We promote innovative strategies for addressing the goals and needs of people hospitalized with psychiatric conditions.

We treat patients with compassion, respect, and humility.

We center the voices of people with lived experience of inpatient hospitalization and psychiatric care.

We uphold principles of the scientific method as our ontological framework for determining what is evidence-based psychological care.

We value open science practices that promote transparency and reproducibility.