PREVENTING DEPRESSION IN COUPLES FACING JOB LOSS

这项拟议的协作研究项目(R-10)是 关于预防情绪性和非精神性精神障碍的协调研究计划 经历工作的个人和家庭的行为障碍 损失。由密歇根预防研究中心的调查人员购买 密歇根大学(NIMH授予编号5P50MH38330)和该中心 对于乔治·华盛顿大学的家庭研究，拟议的R-10 该项目汇集了每项研究的独特科学资源 这个团队，当联合起来时，将产生预防性干预 经历失业危机的夫妇，这是无法通过 任何一支球队都不能单独行动。密歇根集团带来了十多年的 开展大规模随机纵向预防的体会 在两个不同的地方检验成功的工作预防性干预的试验 复制。最近的复制包括来自配偶和 重要的其他人。它们还带来了大量的专业知识 培训、发展和提供求职干预，以及更多 最近，关于应对经济困难的问题。乔治·华盛顿团队 带来了十年研究家庭如何处理 危机，包括新的基于经验的夫妻关系理论模型 互动和心理健康，以及从他们目前的纵向数据 应对失业危机夫妻的社会支持研究。在……里面 此外，它们还带来了新的夫妇相互作用的行为度量 来自对夫妇录像的微观分析研究 应对失业危机的互动。 拟议的协作研究将涉及开发一种新的 针对失业夫妇的预防性干预措施 防止抑郁和破坏亲密关系 意愿：1)让夫妻双方参与干预；2)聚焦 将配偶双方的心理健康作为心理健康目标； 阐述一种夫妻应对失业、兼顾两种情况的理论 个人层面和夫妻层面的过程；4)借鉴新兴的 这两个网站在设计新的情侣导向网站时的发现 预防性干预；以及5)提供复制的机会 通过以下方式测试预防性干预措施的概括性 两个地点的平行对照干预试验。作为…的副产品 夫妻干预的合作发展，可复制 将在每个地点进行随机试验，包括 对300对实验夫妇进行筛查、预测试和干预 150名控制组夫妇在干预后立即进行后测 六个月和一年。拟议的R-10合作还将 使检验预防性干预的普遍性成为可能 两个站点和两个主要部门的理论和发现 经济，制造业继续稳步下滑， 延续大幅增长模式的服务型经济。

This proposed collaborative research project (R-10) is the next step in a coordinated program of research on the prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders in individuals and families experiencing job loss.Pursued by investigators at the Michigan Prevention Research Center of the University of Michigan (NIMH Grant No. 5P50MH38330) and the Center for Family Research at the George Washington University, the proposed R-10 project brings together unique scientific resources from each research team that, when combined, will produce a preventive intervention for couples experiencing the crisis of job loss that could not be achieved by either team alone. The Michigan group brings more than ten years of experience in conducting large scale randomized longitudinal preventive trials testing the successful JOBS preventive intervention in two separate replications. The most recent replication includes data from spouses and significant others. They also bring substantial expertise in the training, development and delivery of job search interventions, and, more recently, on coping with economic hardship. The George Washington team brings ten years of experience in the study of how families deal with crises, including new empirically based theoretical models of couples' interaction and mental health, and data from their current longitudinal study of social support in couples coping with the crisis of job loss. In addition, they bring new behavioral measures of couple interaction derived from micro-analytic studies of videotaped recordings of couples' interaction coping with the crisis of job loss. The proposed collaborative study will involve the development of a new preventive intervention for couples experiencing job loss aimed at the prevention of depression and the disruption of intimate relationships that will: 1) involve both partners of the couple in the intervention; 2) focus on the mental health of both partners as mental health targets; 3) elaborate a theory of couples coping with job loss, attending to both individual level and couples level processes; 4) draw on the emerging findings from the two sites in designing the new couples-oriented preventive intervention; and 5) provide an opportunity for replication to test generalizability of the preventive interventions, by conducting parallel controlled intervention trials at both sites. As an outgrowth of the collaborative development of the couples intervention, replicated randomized trials at each site will be conducted that will involve screening, pre-test, and intervention with 300 experimental couples and 150 control led couples with post-tests immediately after intervention at six months and at one year. The proposed R-10 collaboration will also make it possible to test the generalizability of preventive intervention theory and findings across two sites and across two major sectors of the economy, the manufacturing sector which continues its steady decline and the service economy which continues a pattern of substantial growth.