Designing Culturally and Socially Valid Interventions

建议指导职业奖的总体目标是为申请人提供必要的技能，以启动一个独立的研究计划，重点是为受身体虐待影响的亚裔美国人家庭制定文化和社会有效的干预措施。申请人完全有资格获得该奖项，因为她在两个研究领域接受过良好的培训：少数族裔的心理健康护理和（2）与虐待儿童相关的心理健康需求。然而，为了实现她的职业目标，她需要额外的指导和指导：（1）干预设计，实施和评估;（2）将基础行为科学的研究结果转化为干预发展;（3）家庭，社区和机构参与干预研究和传播;（4）适合评估研究的高级数据分析;（5）研究人员的指导。及（5）少数民族儿童心理健康研究的伦理问题。该培训计划将使申请人能够建立一种方法，用于制定、执行、传播和评估针对虐待性父母的文化相关干预措施，从而减少少数民族家庭的儿童心理健康问题。研究计划分为三个阶段。第一阶段是一项观察性研究，将确定亚裔美国人家庭中身体虐待的文化显著相关性。在第2阶段，将扩大现有的基于证据的身体虐待父母培训干预措施，以包括新设计的治疗成分，以解决第1阶段确定的文化上突出的虐待风险因素。第3阶段将涉及对拟议干预措施的有限测试，以提供其疗效的初步估计。这项研究的产品将是一个经验性的，文化上的响应性干预身体虐待在亚裔美国人家庭准备在未来的研究实施和评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of the proposed mentored career award is to provide the applicant with the necessary skills to launch an independent research program focusing on the development of culturally and socially valid interventions for Asian American families affected by physical abuse. The applicant is well qualified for this award based on her strong training in two lines of research: mental health care for ethnic minorities and (2) mental health needs associated with child maltreatment. However, to meet her career objective she requires additional instruction and mentorship in: (1) intervention design, implementation, and evaluation; (2) translation of findings from the basic behavioral sciences to intervention development; (3) family, community and institutional engagement in intervention research and dissemination; (4) advanced data analysis appropriate for evaluation research; and (5) ethics in the conduct of mental health research with ethnic minority children. This training plan will enable the applicant to establish a methodology for producing, implementing, disseminating and evaluating culturally relevant interventions to target abusive parenting, thereby reducing child mental health problems in ethnic minority families. The research plan is divided into three phases. Phase 1 is an observational study that will identify culturally salient correlates of physical abuse in Asian-American families. In Phase 2, an existing evidence based parent training intervention for physical abuse will be augmented to include newly designed treatment components to address the culturally salient risk factors for abuse identified in Phase 1. Phase 3 will involve a limited test of the proposed intervention to provide an initial estimate of its efficacy. The product of this research will be an empirically derived, culturally responsive intervention for physical abuse in Asian American families ready for implementation and evaluation in a future study.