CRI: Planning the Center for the Study of Children's Development in Relationships

朱莉娅·托尔夸蒂、丽莎克罗克特、卡罗琳·爱德华兹、马塞拉·拉斐尔利和罗斯·汤普森的关系对儿童时期的智力、情感、社会和身体的成长至关重要。 与父母、祖父母、兄弟姐妹、同龄人、教师、日托和学前照顾者以及其他人的关系有助于技能的发展，对儿童的个性做出反应，促进新的学习和成长，并提供安全和支持的来源。 最近，美国国家科学院幼儿发展科学整合委员会在其报告《从神经元到邻里》中将关系描述为健康发展的“活性成分”。 但是，尽管人们对特定关系对儿童发展的影响了解很多，但目前的理解仍有许多局限性。 本项目建议书要求提供支持，使调查人员能够通过计划建立儿童关系发展研究中心来推进发展中的关系科学。 该中心的总体目标是发展对儿童从婴儿期到青春期的关系发展进行多学科研究的能力，包括各种关系和儿童时期特有的发展心理过程。 更具体地说，该中心的研究人员将开发：（a）对发展和关系的共同理论观点，以指导他们的工作，（B）协调研究科学家进行的具体研究活动的框架，（c）通过讲习班、会议和联网机会进行学术交流的进程，（d）为研究生、博士后学者和访问科学家开展的教育活动，（e）与有关儿童的机构和社区资源的联系，（f）地方和国家来源的发展和关系方面现有数据和报告的储存库，（g）向其他学者、社区、人类服务专业人员和决策者传播研究结论的程序。 拟议规划期的目标是通过在内布拉斯加大学内建立合作伙伴关系，并与其他机构的学者，开创本中心的发展，并通过严格审查目前对儿童关系的研究，以确定概念化，测量，研究人口或发展阶段和过渡已被检查的差距，启动具体的研究计划。 在拟议规划期间，将开展若干活动。 这些措施包括：（a）通过每月会议，文献评论交流和咨询专家咨询委员会对未来研究需求的评估，（B）在大学内建立多学科合作，并与外部学者合作，（c）通过合作互动开发共享的理论框架，以及（d）准备和提交中心赠款提案。 儿童关系发展研究中心还将实现几个辅助目标。 首先，它将为这一重要专题的教育和研究一体化提供基础设施。 其次，它将通过积极招募学者、学生和研究参与者，扩大代表性不足群体的代表性。 最后，中心学者的工作将通过独立的研究活动和研究文献的审查，提高该领域的知识。

AbstractPlanning a Center for the Study of Children's Development in Relationships Julia Torquati, Lisa Crockett, Carolyn Edwards, Marcela Raffaelli, and Ross Thompson Relationships are critical to intellectual, emotional, social, and physical growth in childhood. Relationships with parents, grandparents, siblings, peers, teachers, caregivers in day care and preschool, and others contribute to the development of skills, respond to the child's individuality, facilitate new learning and growth, and provide sources of security and support. Relationships have recently been described as the "active ingredients" of healthy development by the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development of the National Academy of Sciences in their report, From Neurons to Neighborhoods. But although much is known about the impact of specific relationships on children's development, there are many limitations to current understanding. This project proposal requests support to enable investigators to advance the science of relationships in development by planning the creation of a Center for the Study of Children's Development in Relationships. The overarching goal of the Center is to develop the capacity for multi-disciplinary research on children's development within relationships, from infancy through adolescence, encompassing the varieties of relationships and develop-mental processes characteristic of childhood. More specifically, researchers at the Center will develop: (a) a shared theoretical view of development and relationships to guide their work, (b) a framework for coordination among specific research activities conducted by research scientists, (c) processes for scholarly exchanges through workshops, conferences, and networking opportunities, (d) educational activities for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and visiting scientists, (e) associations with institutional and community resources concerned with children, (f) a repository for data and reports that already exist concerning development and relationships from both local and national sources, and (g) procedures for disseminating research conclusions to other scholars, communities, human service professionals, and policymakers. The goals of the proposed planning period are to inaugurate the development of this Center by building collaborative partnerships within the University of Nebraska, and with scholars at other institutions, and to initiate specific research programs by critically examining current research on children's relationships to identify gaps in conceptualization, measurement, populations studied, or developmental stages and transitions that have been examined. During the proposed planning period, several activities will occur. These include (a) an assessment of future research needs through monthly meetings, exchanges of reviews of the literature, and consulting with an advisory board of experts, (b) building multidisciplinary collaborations within the University, and with scholars outside it, (c) developing a shared theoretical framework through collaborative interaction, and (d) preparation and submission of a Center grant proposal. The Center for the Study of Children's Development in Relationships will also accomplish several ancillary goals. First, it will provide an infrastructure for the integration of education and research on this important topic. Second, it will broaden the representation of underrepresented groups through active recruitment of scholars, students, and research participants. Finally, the work of Center scholars will enhance knowledge of the field through independent research activities and review of the research literature.