MENTAL HEALTH MENTORSHIP AND EDUCATION PROGRAM

我们建议在新墨西哥大学（UNM）启动心理健康服务研究的指导和教育计划（MEP）。该教学学院将重点关注初级保健机构中的少数民族心理健康问题，提供为期一周的密集培训课程，向少数民族初级教员和研究生介绍心理健康服务研究。项目还将加强与优秀心理健康研究人员之间的师徒关系，这些研究人员既可以作为学员研究的顾问，也可以作为学员职业发展的榜样。该项目的总体目标是：1)教授该领域的基本研究方法，重点是如何撰写提案和管理资助提案；2)向学员介绍精神卫生服务研究的最新重要成果，特别强调与西南少数民族人口有关的研究；3)建立学员与科研导师之间的网络；4)帮助学员“职业发展”的各个方面；5)编制面向少数群体的心理健康服务研究课程，可向其他教育机构推广；6)每年在心理健康服务研究方面启动一系列持续的培训课程。MEP的目标参与者将包括已经参加nimh资助的新墨西哥大学少数民族研究基础设施支持计划（M-RISP）的少数民族初级教员，新墨西哥大学其他希望加入M-RISP的少数民族教员，以及来自西南地区其他机构的少数民族学员。每个参加培训的学员将被分配给新墨西哥大学的导师和/或外部导师，在为期一周的MEP课程期间和接下来的一年里与他们一起工作。外部教员，包括杰出的少数民族心理健康服务研究人员，能够作为榜样，将在MEP年度会议上授课两到三天，然后在接下来的一年里担任持续的导师，大约每隔一周一小时通过电话和每三到四个月面对面的会议。新墨西哥大学的教师将每周或每两周与当地的学员见面。我们期望MEP将在新墨西哥州和西南地区发展精神卫生服务研究的重点，并将成为全国认可的培训少数民族教员在初级保健方面进行精神卫生研究的模式。

We propose to initiate a Mentorship and Educational Program (MEP) in Mental Health Services Research at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Focusing on minority mental health issues in primary care settings, this teaching institute will provide an intensive, one-week training session, which will introduce mental health services research to minority junior faculty members and graduate students. The MEP also will enhance ongoing mentorship relationships with outstanding mental health researchers who can serve as both advisers for the trainees' research and as role models in their career development. The overall aims of the MEP are to: 1) teach trainees basic research methods in this field, with an emphasis on how to write proposals and manage funded proposals; 2) introduce trainees to important recent findings of mental health services research, with special emphasis on research pertinent to minority populations of the Southwest; 3) establish networks among trainees and research mentors; 4) help trainees with various aspects of "career development"; 5) produce a minority-oriented mental health services research curriculum that is exportable to other educational institutions; and 6) initiate an ongoing sequence of training sessions in mental health services research on an annual basis. Targeted participants for the MEP will include the minority junior faculty members already participating in the NIMH-funded Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program (M-RISP) at UNM, other minority faculty members at UNM who would like to affiliate with the M-RISP, and minority trainees from other institutions in the Southwest region. Each participating trainee will be assigned to a mentor at UNM and/or an external mentor with whom to work during the one-week MEP session and during the following year. External faculty members, who will include outstanding minority mental health services researchers able to serve as role models, will teach at the MEP annual session for two to three days and then will act as ongoing mentors during the following year, roughly one hour every other week by phone and via face to face meetings every three to four months. UNM-based faculty will meet with local trainees on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. We expect that the MEP will develop a focus for mental health services research in New Mexico and the Southwest region and will emerge as a nationally recognized model for training of minority faculty members in mental health research at the interface with primary care.