Research Education in Disaster Mental Health

描述(申请人提供)：本申请的长期目标是提高灾害心理健康研究的质量和效用，使灾害受害者得到更好的理解和服务。拟议项目的教育目标是向灾害研究人员提供信息、指导、建议和指导。根据研究性教育是在某一重点活动之前(即独立于)还是之后提供，每个教育目标都有两个教育战略，分别称为主动教育和被动教育。通过创建一个专门的网站来实现这一信息目标，科学界和其他有关各方可以在该网站上轻松、方便和一致地获得关于灾害研究最新状况的全面和最新信息。通过编写和试行将用于研究生/专业研讨会和灾后研究讲习班的教材，包括一本综合教科书和一系列大师讲座的光盘，实现了教学目标。通过向个别调查人员提供咨询，寻求关于开展或提议开展灾害心理健康研究的具体方法或实践建议，实现咨询目标。指导目标是通过实施一项资助计划来实现的，该计划针对16名有前途的个人(在项目过程中)，他们对灾难心理健康研究的职业产生了兴趣并表现出了能力。这一指导计划的十个方面被描述：(1)教师培训；(2)被辅导者提交研究计划书；(3)导师选择；(4)被辅导者定向/奖学金发展；(5)指导/应用发展；(6)“科学实践”咨询/协作发展；(7)持续监测；(8)问题解决/重新分配(如果适用)；(9)小组会议；以及(10)开始。该项目的教职员工由一个全国性的专家小组组成，他们代表了一系列学科观点、研究技能、文化理解和现实世界经验。一个较小的专业顾问小组帮助该计划在研究和实践之间架起一座桥梁。为了评估该计划的影响，使用了来自教育、通信和信息科学领域的方法。这些方法包括基于标准的评估、消费者调查和准实验设计等方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goal of this application is to improve the quality and utility of disaster mental health research so that victims of disasters are better understood and served. The educational goals of the proposed project are to inform, instruct, advise, and mentor disaster researchers. Each educational goal is addressed by two educational strategies denoted as proactive and reactive, depending upon whether the research education is offered before (i.e., independent of) or after a focal event. The informational goal is met by creating a specialized website on which comprehensive and up-to-date information on the state of the art in disaster research is easily, readily, and consistently available to the scientific community and other interested parties. The instructional goal is met by creating and piloting educational materials to be used in graduate/professional seminars and post disaster research workshops, including a comprehensive textbook and a CD-ROM series of master lectures. The advisement goal is met by providing consultation to individual investigators seeking specific methodological or practical advice about conducting or proposing to conduct disaster mental health research. The mentoring goal is met by implementing a grant program for 16 promising individuals (over the course of the project) who develop interest and show aptitude in careers in disaster mental health research. Ten aspects of this mentoring program are described: (1) faculty orientation and training; (2) mentee's submission of research prospectus; (3) mentor selection; (4) mentee orientation/scholarship development; (5) mentoring/application development; (6) "science to practice" consultation/collaboration development; (7) ongoing monitoring; (8) problem resolution/reassignment (when applicable); (9) group meetings; and (10) commencement. The program's faculty is composed of a nationwide panel of experts who represent a range of disciplinary perspectives, research skills, cultural understandings, and real-world experiences. A smaller group of specialized consultants helps the program to bridge the worlds of research and practice. To evaluate the impact of the program, methods drawn from the fields of education, communication, and information science are used. These include criterion based evaluations, consumer surveys, and quasi-experimental designs, among other approaches.