Understanding how family processes affect children's mental health: Implementing an international and interdisciplinary programme of research

了解家庭过程如何影响儿童的心理健康：实施国际跨学科研究计划

• 批准号: ES/N003098/1
• 负责人: Ruth Sellers
• 金额: $ 13.73万
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN003098%2F1
• 关键词: Understanding; how; family; processes; affect

Mental health problems among youth in the UK are steadily on the increase. Family relationship experiences and parent mental health symptoms have been identified as factors that may underlie individual differences in children's symptoms of psychopathology. Yet questions remain as to the relative role of family level influences on children's mental health problems and the factors that may mediate and/or moderate these associations. The proposed programme of research will employ four complementary datasets that together will advance understanding of the interplay between family interaction patterns, parent mental health problems and child symptoms of psychopathology (e.g., depression, conduct problems). These datasets include a longitudinal US adoption-at-birth sample (N>500), a UK sample of children conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF, N>1000), a UK longitudinal sample of adolescent children at familial risk for depression (N>300), and a cohort longitudinal study of children followed from birth to present age 38+ years (N>900, living in New Zealand). The proposed programme of research will advance three core objectives: (1) to substantively improve understanding of how family relationship processes and parent mental health problems affect mental health outcomes for children and adolescents, and to identify factors that mediate and moderate pathways, (2) to implement a mentorship model that will help develop world-class methodological and knowledge-transfer skills that will promote prospects for a sustainable career of international standing in the future, while also contributing to the promotion of transferable skills for UK social science, and (3) to facilitate engagement with relevant practice and policy agencies to promote knowledge transfer and implementation of findings in order to advance the next generation of intervention and prevention programmes with the objective of improving outcomes for children and families in the UK (and internationally). Collectively, a central objective of the proposed programme of research is to facilitate advanced training in two primary areas. First, training in the application of advanced multivariate statistics and the analysis of longitudinal data will be emphasised throughout the training/fellowship period. Second, training will be directed toward promoting skills development that facilitate engagement with practice and policy agencies in relation to dissemination and impact related activities specific to the programme of research outlined. Mentorship, training and support in these areas will allow the applicant to compete at an international level in relation to emerging knowledge and skills in this area in the future, and also contribute to the development of a recognised skills deficit in the UK in the area of advanced multivariate statistics, thereby improving the knowledge base in this area and increasing the prospect of knowledge transfer for future UK social scientists. Principal mentorship support will be provided by Professor Gordon Harold (University of Sussex) within the research environment provided by the School of Psychology and the Rudd Centre for Adoption Research and Practice. This Centre is a newly established centre of excellence for the study of family processes and child development and the utilisation of large-scale data resources with the expressed purpose of generating evidence-led knowledge for the development of intervention-prevention programmes and working with practice and policy agencies in the UK and internationally. Collectively, the proposed programme of research, mentorship model, and access to practice and policy partners will help locate the applicant as a future world leader in the field of child and adolescent mental health, an area of recognised critical social, clinical and policy relevance to the UK.

英国年轻人的心理健康问题正在稳步增加。家庭关系经历和父母精神健康症状已被确定为可能导致儿童精神病理症状的个体差异的因素。然而，家庭层面的影响对儿童心理健康问题的相对作用，以及可能调解和/或缓和这些联系的因素，仍然存在问题。拟议的研究方案将使用四个互补的数据集，这些数据集将共同促进对家庭互动模式、父母心理健康问题和儿童精神病理学症状(例如抑郁症、品行问题)之间相互作用的理解。这些数据集包括美国出生时领养的纵向样本(N&gt；500)、英国通过体外受精受孕的儿童样本(IVF，N&gt；1000)、英国有抑郁家族风险的青春期儿童的纵向样本(N&gt；300)，以及对儿童从出生到现在38岁以上的纵向队列研究(N&gt；900，居住在新西兰)。拟议的研究计划将推进三个核心目标：(1)实质性地提高对家庭关系过程和父母心理健康问题如何影响儿童和青少年心理健康结果的理解，并确定中介和缓和途径的因素；(2)实施导师模式，帮助发展世界级的方法和知识转移技能，以促进未来具有国际地位的可持续职业生涯的前景，同时也有助于促进英国社会科学的可转让技能。以及(3)促进与相关实践和政策机构的接触，促进知识转让和调查结果的实施，以推进下一代干预和预防方案，目的是改善英国(和国际)儿童和家庭的结果。总的来说，拟议研究方案的一个中心目标是促进两个主要领域的高级培训。首先，在整个培训/研究金期间，将强调高级多变量统计应用和纵向数据分析方面的培训。第二，培训的目的将是促进技能发展，促进与实践和政策机构接触，开展与研究方案所述具体的传播和影响有关的活动。这些领域的指导、培训和支持将使申请者能够在未来与这一领域的新兴知识和技能相关的国际水平上竞争，并有助于发展英国在高级多元统计领域公认的技能不足，从而改善这一领域的知识库，并增加未来英国社会科学家的知识转移前景。主要导师支持将由戈登·哈罗德教授(苏塞克斯大学)在心理学院和陆克文收养研究和实践中心提供的研究环境中提供。该中心是一个新成立的研究家庭进程和儿童发展以及利用大规模数据资源的卓越中心，其明确目的是为制定干预预防方案产生以证据为导向的知识，并与英国和国际上的实践和政策机构合作。总的来说，拟议的研究计划、指导模式以及获得实践和政策合作伙伴的机会将有助于将申请者定位为儿童和青少年心理健康领域未来的世界领导者，该领域对英国具有公认的关键社会、临床和政策相关性。

项目成果

Reducing Societal Costs of Inter-Parental Conflict: Introducing a Cascade Model to Estimate Cumulative Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)

减少父母间冲突的社会成本：引入级联模型来估计累积成本效益分析（CBA）

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Harold G

Using an adoption-biological family design to examine associations between maternal trauma, maternal depressive symptoms, and child internalizing and externalizing behaviors.

• DOI: 10.1017/s0954579417001341
• 发表时间: 2017-12
• 期刊: Development and psychopathology
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Grabow AP;Khurana A;Natsuaki MN;Neiderhiser JM;Harold GT;Shaw DS;Ganiban JM;Reiss D;Leve LD
• 通讯作者: Leve LD

Mental Health and Illness Worldwide, Mental Health and Illness of Children and Adolescents.

全球心理健康和疾病，儿童和青少年的心理健康和疾病。

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Collishaw S

Annual Research Review: Interparental conflict and youth psychopathology: an evidence review and practice focused update.

年度研究回顾：父母间冲突和青少年精神病理学：证据回顾和实践重点更新。

• DOI: 10.17863/cam.89694
• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Harold G

Mental health resilience in the adolescent offspring of parents with depression: a prospective longitudinal study.

• DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(15)00358-2
• 发表时间: 2016-01
• 期刊: The lancet. Psychiatry
• 作者: Collishaw S;Hammerton G;Mahedy L;Sellers R;Owen MJ;Craddock N;Thapar AK;Harold GT;Rice F;Thapar A
• 通讯作者: Thapar A