Training in Early Childhood Mental Health Research

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管科学进步了，但我们迫切需要复杂的、与社会相关的、多学科的合作研究，以建立我们的能力，促进所有青少年的心理健康，防止危害他们的社会和学术未来的问题，并帮助所有类型的社区采用和维持有效的干预措施。宾夕法尼亚州立大学儿童研究和预防研究中心联合提出了一项针对16名在读博士和8名博士后的合作项目，旨在帮助他们增加临床相关发展知识的资金，产生敏感的、以发展为导向的、经验支持的评估和干预措施，将科学证据转化为社区实践，并利用社区经验指导研究工作。为期两年的培训计划整合了发展和干预科学，整合了3个研究主题：(1)发展精神病理学中跨领域的神经认知-行为关系，(2)经验支持干预措施效果的中介和调节因子，以及(3)背景下高危家庭的发展分析。通过在基础和应用研究实验室、课程作业和创新综合活动方面的培训，研究员将获得发展和应用科学、撰写拨款、跨学科合作和与社区伙伴合作方面的特定技能，这将加快他们为幼儿心理健康资助研究做出重大贡献的能力。参与的17名教师代表了宾夕法尼亚州立大学的研究人员队伍，他们在这些领域之间架起了桥梁，可以为大量的合作、多学科、资助的研究项目提供培训机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite scientific advances, there is an acute need for sophisticated, socially-relevant, multidisciplinary collaborative research to build our capacity to promote all youngsters' mental health, to prevent the problems that jeopardize their social and academic futures, and to help all types of communities adopt and sustain effective interventions. The Penn State Child Study and Prevention Research Centers jointly propose a collaborative program for 16 pre- and 8 post-doctoral trainees, to prepare them to increase the fund of clinically relevant developmental knowledge, generate sensitive, developmentally-guided, empirically-supported assessment and interventions, convert scientific evidence into community-based practices, and use experience in the community to guide research efforts. The two-year training program integrates developmental and intervention science integrating 3 research themes: (1) neurocognitive-behavioral relations across-domains in developmental psychopathology, (2) mediators and moderators of efficacy of empirically-supported interventions, and (3) developmental analyses of families-at-risk in context. Through training in basic and applied research labs, coursework, and innovative integrative activities, fellows will acquire specific skills in developmental and applied science, writing grants, and collaborating across disciplines and with community partners that will accelerate their ability to contribute substantially to funded research in early childhood mental health. The participating 17 faculty represent a corps of Penn State researchers who bridge these areas and can provide training opportunities on a large number of collaborative, multidisciplinary, funded research projects.