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

描述（由申请人提供）：心理学家包括在酒精领域进行研究和提供研究培训的大部分个人。这些工作涉及各种类型的研究，包括基础科学、理论发展、应用临床研究、功效和实施研究、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至关重要。这项工作对研究界持续取得丰硕成果的发展至关重要，最终对研究界为公众健康服务所作的努力至关重要。50分部是美国心理协会（阿帕）的一部分，APA是全球最大的心理学家组织，也是对成瘾行为感兴趣的心理学家的组织之家。该部门的目标是促进研究，专业培训和临床实践方面的进展，包括有问题的酒精使用成瘾行为。每年，50分部都会在阿帕年会上赞助会议节目，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。 拟议的应用程序侧重于支持50司在本次会议上组织的演讲和相关公约活动，特别是侧重于发展和支持心理学的早期职业调查人员，他们对酒精及其相关问题的研究感兴趣。这将通过每年支持一次大会前赠款撰写讲习班、早期职业旅行奖（三年45次）、支持更多高级NIAAA获奖者参加的研讨会旅行奖（三年9次）以及制作和邮寄宣传这些活动的小册子来实现。拟议的三年期工作利用了计划中的会议地点，这些地点相距甚远，可能会吸引不同的区域和国际研究人员。这将促进心理学酒精研究人员社区的广泛联网和思想交流，并使50司会议组织者能够在本项目期间制定年度方案，增加连续性。通过定期的公约在线摘要和该司的通讯发表所支持的专题介绍，也将有助于在公约范围以外的传播。净效应是创造一个学习酒精研究的遗产，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.