Development of a PhD Clinical Sciences Program in Vietnam

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的发展ICOHRTA竞争性更新的最终目标（D43-TW 05805）项目旨在永久提高越南社会主义共和国（越南）在以下方面的研究能力：（a）为越南儿童的心理健康问题开发适合文化的、基于研究的治疗方法;（B）计划、设计和进行干预试验，以经验性地评估这些治疗，以及解决次要问题（例如，确定治疗效果的媒介物）;以及（c）传播这项研究的结果，以便对服务的提供产生有利的影响。此外，预计在实现这些目标的成功将扩大我们的领域对人类行为的理解，通过项目教师和学员之间的文化观点的合作共享。为此，我们的第一个具体目标是，在五年内：（a）为六名越南研究人员提供范德比尔特临床科学方案的临床心理学培训（两名为研究生博士）。学生，四名两年博士后学员）以及（B）通过在越南举办为期两周的暑期密集研讨会，为大约十名越南“项目研究员”提供培训（包括就他们的研究提供咨询）。为了确保提高研究能力是长期可持续的，我们的第二个具体目标是支持以儿童为中心，以研究为导向的博士学位的发展。临床心理学计划在越南国立大学在河内;在范德比尔特接受培训的个人将作为核心教师在这个新的计划。我们的第三个具体目标是，通过ICOHRTA项目促进的合作，通过扩大其文化基础，为心理学作为一个领域的扩大做出贡献。与越南研究人员的合作关系是该计划的核心要素，将为美国研究人员提供长期机会，分享和学习来自不同文化的研究人员对人类行为的看法。这将增加我们对文化作为心理结构之间关系的调节剂的重要性的欣赏和理解，丰富我们自己的研究以及我们的越南同事。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ultimate goal of this competing renewal for our Developmental ICOHRTA (D43-TW05805) project is to permanently increase research capacity in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (Vietnam) in regards to: (a) developing culturally-appropriate, research-based treatments for Vietnamese children's mental health problems; (b) planning, designing, and conducting intervention trials to empirically evaluate these treatments, as well as to address secondary questions (e.g., determining mediators of treatment effects); and (c) disseminating the results of this research so as to favorably impact on service provision. In addition, it is expected that success in achieving these goals will broaden our field's understanding of human behavior, through the collaborative sharing of cultural perspectives among project faculty and trainees. Towards this end, our first Specific Aim is, over five years, to: (a) provide six Vietnamese researchers with training in clinical psychology at the Vanderbilt Clinical Sciences program (two as graduate Ph.D. students, four as two year post-doctoral trainees) as well as (b) provide training to approximately ten Vietnamese "Program Fellows" via two week summer intensive seminars in Vietnam (which will include providing consultation on their research). In order to ensure that increased research capacity is sustainable over the long-term, our second Specific Aim is to support the development of a child-focused, research-oriented Ph.D. clinical psychology program at the Vietnam National University in Hanoi; the individuals receiving training at Vanderbilt will serve as core faculty in this new program. Our third Specific Aim is, through the collaborations facilitated by this ICOHRTA project, to contribute to the broadening of psychology as a field, by expanding its cultural base. The collaborative relationships with the Vietnamese researchers that are a central element of the program will provide the U.S. researchers with long-term opportunities to share and learn the perspective on human behavior of researchers from a significantly different culture. This will increase our appreciation and understanding of the significance of culture as a moderator of relations among psychological constructs, enriching our own research as well as that of our Vietnamese colleagues.