Research Training in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

描述(申请人提供)：这是一个机构国家研究服务奖的申请，以支持医学生的短期研究培训，并在纽约大学儿童研究中心建立为期两到三年的儿童心理健康研究博士后培训。纽约大学儿童研究中心是纽约大学医学院精神病学系的一个部门，成立的目的是促进儿童心理健康研究，向临床医生传播研究成果，并提供跨专业范围的高质量培训。可用的资源包括教师在药理学和心理社会干预试验、神经成像、纵向研究和儿童/青少年精神病理学评估方面的专业知识。这些模式目前正在应用于外部支持的研究项目，包括焦虑和情绪障碍、破坏性行为障碍、抽动障碍、创伤后应激障碍、以家庭为基础的行为问题预防、对重病患者和寄养儿童的服务利用以及社区外展服务。研究员将在研究模式和内容领域挑选导师，并致力于发展先进的研究技能，目标是成为独立的调查人员。学员的研究可以利用贝尔维尤医院中心和其他临床环境中高度多样化的患者群体。我们最初每年将招聘两名实习生，一名是心理学博士，一名是完成儿童和青少年精神病学住院医师培训的内科医生。在第三至第五年，我们将每年招聘两名心理学家和两名儿童和青少年精神科医生。该计划的总体目标是培训精神病学和临床心理学方面的临床科学家，以对儿童心理健康问题进行实证研究，并推动这些受训人员从事富有成效的学术研究事业。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for an Institutional National Research Service Award to support Short-Term Research Training for medical students and to establish a two- to three-year postdoctoral traineeship in children's mental health research at the New York University Child Study Center. The NYU Child Study Center is a division within the Department of Psychiatry of the NYU School of Medicine that was established to facilitate children's mental health research, to disseminate research findings to clinicians, and to provide high-quality training across the professional spectrum. Available resources include faculty expertise in pharmacological and psychosocial intervention trials, neuroimaging, longitudinal studies, and assessment of child/adolescent psychopathology. These modalities are currently being applied to externally-supported research programs in anxiety and mood disorders, disruptive behavior disorders, Tourette's disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, family-based prevention of conduct problems, service utilization for the severely ill and for children in foster care, and community outreach services. Research fellows will select mentors in a research modality as well as in content areas, and pursue their development of advanced research skills with the goal of becoming independent investigators. Trainees' research can take advantage of access to highly diverse patient populations at Bellevue Hospital Center and other clinical settings. We will initially recruit two trainees per year, one a Ph.D. psychologist and one a physician who completed residency training in child and adolescent psychiatry. In the third through fifth years, we will recruit two psychologists and two child and adolescent psychiatrists per year. The overall goals of the program are to train clinical scientists in psychiatry and clinical psychology to conduct empirical research on child mental health problems, and to advance these trainees to productive academic research careers.