115th, 116th and 117th Convention of the American Psycological Association

描述(由申请人提供)：在酒精领域进行研究和提供研究培训的个人中，心理学家占很大比例。这些工作涉及不同类型的研究，包括基础科学、理论发展、应用临床研究、疗效和实施研究、培训方法、政策研究，甚至统计和计量经济学方法。因此，培养这一研究群体的发展是很重要的。这些工作对研究界的持续卓有成效的发展至关重要，最终对研究界为公众健康服务的努力也是如此。50分部是美国心理协会(APA)的一部分，APA是世界上最大的心理学家组织，是对成瘾行为感兴趣的心理学家的组织之家。该司的目标是在包括酗酒问题在内的成瘾行为范围内促进研究、专业培训和临床实践的进步。每年，50司在APA年度大会上赞助会议规划，旨在促进早期职业研究人员，突出高级研究人员的工作，并扩大和发展成瘾领域的研究人员社区。 拟议的申请侧重于支持第50司在本次会议上组织的专题介绍和相关的会议活动，特别侧重于发展和支持对酒精及其相关问题的研究有主要兴趣的心理学早期职业研究人员。这将通过每年支助一次大会前赠款编写讲习班、早期职业旅行奖励(三年内45次)、支持更多获得NIAAA奖励的高级人员参加的研讨会旅行奖励(三年内九次)以及制作和邮寄宣传册来宣布这些活动来实现。拟议的三年努力利用了在相距遥远的地点规划的会议场地，可能会吸引不同的区域和国际研究人员团体。这将促进心理学中酒精研究人员社区的广泛网络和思想的交叉培养，并使50分会的组织者能够制定年度计划，在该项目的持续时间内增加连续性。通过《公约》定期在线摘要和该司通讯出版所支持的专题介绍，也将便利《公约》以外的传播。其最终效果是创造了一项酒精研究方面的学习遗产，以造福公众健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Psychologists comprise a large proportion of the individuals who conduct research and provide research training in the alcohol field. Such work involves diverse types of research, including basic science, theoretical development, applied clinical research, studies of efficacy and implementation, training methods, policy studies, and even statistical and econometric methods. As such, it is important to cultivate development of this community of researchers. Such work is vital to the continued fruitful development of the research community and, ultimately, to the efforts put forth by this community to serve the general public health. Division 50 is a part of the American Psychological Association (APA), the largest organization of psychologists worldwide, and serves as an organizational home for psychologists interested in addictive behaviors. The division has goals of promoting advances in research, professional training, and clinical practice within the range of addictive behaviors including problematic use of alcohol. Each year, Division 50 sponsors convention programming at the annual convention of APA designed to promote early career researchers, highlight the work of senior researchers, and expand and develop the community of researchers in the addiction field. The proposed application focuses on supporting presentations and related convention activities organized by Division 50 at this meeting, specifically focusing on developing and supporting early career investigators in psychology who have a principal interest in research related to alcohol and its associated problems. This will be achieved through yearly support of a pre-convention grant-writing workshop, early career travel awards (45 over three years), symposium travel awards supporting more senior NIAAA-awardees to attend (nine over three years), and production and mailing of brochures to announce these activities. The proposed three-year effort exploits planned convention venues in widely separated locations likely to draw on different groups of regional and international researchers. This will facilitate broad networking and cross-fertilization of ideas in the community of alcohol researchers in psychology, and allow Division 50 convention organizers to develop yearly programming with increased continuity over the duration of this project. The publication of the supported presentations through regular convention online abstracts and the Division newsletter also will facilitate dissemination beyond the convention. The net effect is to create a legacy of learning in alcohol research toward the benefit of the public health.