Training in Early Childhood Mental Health Research

描述(申请人提供)：尽管科学进步，但迫切需要复杂的、与社会相关的多学科合作研究，以建设我们的能力，以促进所有青少年的心理健康，防止危及他们的社会和学术未来的问题，并帮助所有类型的社区采取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为16名博士后和8名博士后学员提出了一项合作计划，让他们做好准备，以增加临床相关发展知识的资金，产生敏感的、发展指导的、经验支持的评估和干预措施，将科学证据转化为基于社区的实践，并使用社区经验来指导研究工作。为期两年的培训计划整合了发展和干预科学，整合了三个研究主题：(1)发展精神病理学中跨领域的神经认知-行为关系，(2)经验支持的干预措施有效性的中介和调节因素，以及(3)背景下处于危险中的家庭的发展分析。通过基础和应用研究实验室的培训、课程作业和创新的综合活动，研究员将获得发展和应用科学、撰写赠款以及跨学科和与社区合作伙伴合作的具体技能，这将加快他们为儿童早期心理健康资助研究做出实质性贡献的能力。参与的17名教员代表了宾夕法尼亚州立大学的研究人员团队，他们在这些领域之间架起了桥梁，并可以提供大量合作、多学科、受资助的研究项目的培训机会。

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.