Winter 1998 - AACP to Sponsor <i>Community Mental Health Journal</i>

xxAACP Newsletter, Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 1998

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AACP to Sponsor Community Mental Health Journal

The AACP is very happy to announce a new association with Human Sciences Press-Plenum as sponsors of the Community Mental Health Journal. For several years we have offered this excellent journal to our members as a benefit of membership. The AACP has edited a section of the journal called "Community Psychiatric Practice," a section highly relevant to our membership. The journal has been a multi-disciplinary forum for a dialogue in community mental health for many years and the AACP is committed to continuing this editorial perspective. David Cutler, MD of the AACP board is the current editor and he will continue his role with the journal. David has pledged to continue the high standards for articles and a similar editorial policy. We may see the journal reflect our organization's interests and offer us some improved services. However, the only major change we can expect with our AACP sponsorship, starting with the February edition, is that the logo and name of our organization will be proudly displayed on the cover.

The opportunity for assuming sponsorship of the CMHJ came after Human Sciences Press terminated their contract wiht the National Council of Community Behavioral Health Care. The National Council had not been able to make the journal subscription part of their membership package and relatively few of its members were actually receiving the journal. As a result, the arrangement was not advantageous for either the publisher or the National Council. The journal has become a respected clinical and research forum while the interests of the National Council had moved in different directions, primarily toward administrative issues. Dr. Cutler had been their editor for several years and had invited the AACP to participate with our Community Practice column in 1992. We have enjoyed a great relationship with the NCCBHC over those years and look forward to continued collaboration and hope that their members will continue to be involved with the Journal/

Given our active participation with the journal as editors, contributors and subscribers it was natural that HSP ask the AACP to be their professional sponsor for this journal. The board strongly supported our negotiating a role as sponsor at the fall meeting and terms of our contract were successfully negotiated since that meeting. We are very proud to make the journal an offical organ of the AACP and to offer it to our colleagues throughout the country and the world. Our journal will continue to be a major contributor to the advancement of community mental health and the role of psychiatry as an integral part of this movement.

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