New Mexico Mental Health Mentorship /Education Program

我们建议继续并加强新墨西哥大学（UNM）心理健康服务研究的指导和教育计划（MEP）。该项目于1999年8月开始接受NIMH的资助。重点关注初级保健环境中的少数民族心理健康问题，特别是心理健康结果的差异，MEP提供为期一周的密集年度培训课程，向少数民族初级教员和研究生介绍心理健康服务研究。该计划还加强了与杰出的心理健康研究人员的持续指导关系，这些研究人员既是学员研究的顾问，也是他们职业发展的榜样。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)向学员介绍心理健康服务研究的最新重要成果，重点介绍影响西南少数民族人群心理健康结果差异的研究；3)建立学员与科研导师之间的网络；4)帮助学员在职业发展的各个方面；制定面向少数群体的心理健康服务研究课程，并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的目标参与者包括参加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，新墨西哥大学的其他少数民族教员，以及西南地区其他机构的少数民族学员。每位参加培训的学员将与新墨西哥大学的导师和/或外部导师相匹配，在为期一周的MEP课程期间和接下来的一年中与他们一起工作。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，在MEP年度会议上授课，然后担任持续的导师。新墨西哥大学的教师每周或每两周与当地的学员见面。我们期望研究所将继续把重点放在新墨西哥州和西南地区的心理健康服务研究上，并成为全国公认的培训少数民族教员在初级保健方面进行心理健康研究的模式。

We propose to continue and to strengthen a Mentorship and Educational Program (MEP) in Mental Health Services Research at the University of New Mexico (UNM). This program began to receive NIMH funding in August 1999. Focusing on minority mental health issues in primary care settings, especially disparities in mental health outcomes, the MEP provides an intensive, one-week annual training session, which introduces mental health services research to minority junior faculty members and graduate students. The MEP also enhances ongoing mentorship relationships with outstanding mental health researchers who 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 concerning the disparities in mental health outcomes that affect minority populations of the Southwest; 3) establish networks among trainees and research mentors; 4) help trainees with various aspects of career development; S) 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 include the minority junior faculty members who have participated in the NIMH-funded Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program (M-RISP) at UNM, other minority faculty members at UNM, and minority trainees from other institutions in the Southwest region. Each participating trainee is matched with 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 include outstanding minority mental health services researchers able to serve as role models, teach at the MEP annual session and then act as ongoing mentors. UNM-based faculty meet with local trainees on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. We expect that the Institute will continue to develop a focus for mental health services research in New Mexico and the Southwest region and to emerge as a nationally recognized model for training of minority faculty members in mental health research at the interface with primary care.