Services Based Research for Refugee Families

描述（由申请人提供）：申请人要求五年的 通过指导研究科学家发展奖（K 01）计划资助 以提高他在为难民家庭提供服务的研究方面的技能。他 打算调查心理社会服务的家庭方面， 特别是家庭信仰的贡献。长期目标是 具备专门知识，可以对难民进行大规模的服务研究， 与服务组织合作，开发和测试新的 针对家庭的干预措施， 他们的需求此应用程序建立在申请人的强大背景， 临床精神病学，跨学科创伤研究，社区沉浸， NIMH资助的波斯尼亚CAFES研究正在成功实施， 这是一个多家庭小组，为患有创伤后应激障碍的难民提供心理健康服务。 认识到难民和其他创伤幸存者的心理社会需要 远远超过了传统创伤所关注的个体和精神病理学问题 心理健康的方法提供，这个应用程序的目的是培训申请人 服务研究计划，利用社会和 行为科学，以开发干预措施， 家庭 申请人提出了家庭信念适应模型用于概念化， 发展和学习服务。培训目标包括基础知识 和技能：1）人种学和定性家庭研究; 2）设计和 定量研究分析; 3）社会和行为理论， 家庭该奖项的研究计划分为两项研究。的 第一项研究将使用人种志和定性方法来调查 来自波斯尼亚的难民家庭的家庭信仰以及 通过干预改变信仰。第二项研究将使用 定量方法来研究与CAFES的接触和保留 干预和家庭信念的影响。完成这一综合 培训和研究计划将使申请人能够及时， 适合民族文化的、有经验支持的面向家庭的服务 在难民和相关群体接受心理社会教育的环境中进行研究 服务

DESCRIPTION (Provided by applicant): The applicant is requesting five years of funding through the Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) program to enhance his skills in services based research for refugee families. He intends to investigate the familial dimensions of psychosocial services, specifically the contribution of family beliefs. The long-term goal is to possess the expertise to conduct large-scale service research on refugees in collaboration with service organizations, which develop and test new interventions for families that build on their strengths and are attuned to their needs. This application builds upon applicants' strong background in clinical psychiatry, interdisciplinary trauma studies, community immersion, and the ongoing successful implementation of the NIMH-funded Bosnian CAFES study of a multi-family group for refugees with PTSD not seeking mental health services. Recognizing that the psychosocial needs of refugees and other trauma survivors far exceed the individual and psychopathological focus that conventional trauma mental health approaches provide, this application aims to train the applicant for a program of services research that utilizes knowledge from social and behavioral sciences to develop interventions that are more oriented towards families. The applicant proposes the Family Beliefs Adaptation Model for conceptualizing, developing and studying services. The training goals consist of basic knowledge and skills in: 1) ethnographic and qualitative family research; 2) design and analysis of quantitative studies; and 3) social and behavioral theories on families. The research plan for this award is divided into two studies. The first study will use ethnographic and qualitative methods to investigate the family beliefs of refugee families from Bosnia and the possibilities for modification of beliefs through interventions. The second study will use quantitative methods to investigate engagement and retention with the CAFES intervention and the impact of family beliefs. Completion of this integrated program of training and research will enable the applicant to pursue timely, ethnoculturally appropriate, empirically supported family oriented services research within settings where refugees and related groups receive psychosocial services.