Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Cross-Cultural Research on Psychiatry, Gender and Childhood

哥伦比亚大学博士生Sahar Sadjadi博士在Carole万斯博士的指导下，将对精神病诊断和西方诊断工具在不同文化中的影响进行比较研究。研究的重点将是自1980年以来儿童性别障碍的诊断和治疗方面的当前临床实践，以及美国精神病学协会精神障碍诊断和统计手册工作组最近修订的诊断类别的使用和影响。这项研究将在两个诊所进行，一个在马萨诸塞州的波士顿，另一个在伊朗的德黑兰。研究人员将通过在工作组和诊所的参与观察，通过与临床医生，患者和家长的访谈，以及通过研究诊断和统计手册文本和技术工具来收集数据。这项研究意义重大，因为它将是第一个跨文化的人类学研究这些特殊的儿童疾病。更一般地说，它将阐明《诊断和统计手册》在全世界日益增加的影响。该研究还将开发新的方法，用于在全球专家知识和当地临床实践的多个，连接和不平等规模之间移动。支持这项研究也支持研究生的教育。

Columbia University doctoral student, Sahar Sadjadi, MD, with the guidance of Dr. Carole Vance, will undertake comparative research on psychiatric diagnoses and the influence of western diagnostic tools across cultures. The focus of the research will be current clinical practices around gender disorders in children, in both diagnosis and treatment, since 1980, and the use and influence of the diagnostic categories recently revised by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Task Force of the American Psychiatric Association. The research will be carried out in two clinics, one in Boston, MA, and the other in Tehran, Iran. The researcher will collect data through participant observation in the Task Force and clinics; through interviews with clinicians, patients, and parents; and through study of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual texts and technical instruments.The research is significant because it will be the first cross-cultural anthropological study of these particular disorders in children. More generally, it will elucidate the increasing world-wide influence of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The research also will develop new methodologies for moving among the multiple, connected, and unequal scales of global expert knowledge, and local clinical practice. Supporting this research also supports the education of a graduate student.