Facilitating Advancement in the Social Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：加州州立大学北岭分校（CSUN COR）的COR项目旨在将严谨的学术课程与支持性和社会意识的研究环境相结合，为传统上代表性不足的学生在心理健康方面的博士学习和研究事业做好准备。CSUN COR的学生学习7门学术课程，以加强方法和专业发展知识和技能，进行指导和独立研究，以撰写会议论文，完成高级荣誉论文，参加校外暑期研究项目，获得学术课程和GRE准备方面的支持，并参加COR社区活动，扩大COR学者的专业网络，如客座讲座和当地文化活动。来自心理学、Chicana/o研究、儿童与青少年发展、家庭与消费者科学和社会学的项目教师参与了与精神分裂症患者的社会感知、不同文化群体的规范神经心理学测量和校园暴力等相关的研究实验室。学生可以发展对不同种族和社会经济背景的老年人、经历过头部创伤、精神分裂症和许多其他精神健康障碍的人群进行心理和神经心理学评估的技能，在医院和诊所环境中发展临床研究技能，并在大型机构中使用定量、定性和混合方法设计进行大规模和深入的研究。每年有四名大三学生和四名大四学生参加CSUN COR，我们计划在5年的时间里培养24名学生。CSUN COR及其研究机会与公共卫生相关，重点放在种族、社会经济和功能多样化的样本上，与健康和心理健康服务直接和间接相关的主题，对发展和维持心理健康至关重要的环境，如学校、退伍军人事务中心、实验室和实地。CSUN COR旨在加强和拓宽学生的研究技能，同时为他们提供自我探索和发展专业身份的机会，以确保学生成功进入博士课程并取得成功，并进入与心理健康相关的研究专业。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The COR program at California State University, Northridge (CSUN COR) was designed to combine a rigorous academic program with a supportive and socially conscious research environment that prepares traditionally underrepresented students for doctoral study and research careers in mental health. CSUN COR students take 7 academic courses to strengthen methodological and professional development knowledge and skills, conduct mentored and independent research leading to conference papers, complete a senior honor's thesis, attend a summer research program off-campus, receive support for academic courses and GRE preparation, and participate in COR community activities that broaden COR Scholars' professional network such as guest lectures and local cultural events. Program faculty from Psychology, Chicana/o Studies, Child and Adolescent Development, Family and Consumer Sciences and Sociology participate in research laboratories related to, for example, social perception in individuals with schizophrenia, norming neuropsychological measures for differing cultural groups, and school violence among many others. Students can develop skills in psychological and neuropsychological assessment with ethnically and socioeconomically diverse populations who are elderly, who have experienced head-trauma, schizophrenia, and a number of other mental health disorders, develop clinical research skills in hospital and clinic settings, and conduct large-scale and in-depth research in large institutions using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods designs. Each year, four juniors and four seniors participate in CSUN COR. With an initial cohort of 8 undergraduate students, we propose to train a total of 24 students over the span of 5 years. CSUN COR and its research opportunities are relevant to public health in the emphasis laid on ethnically, socioeconomically and functionally diverse samples, topics that are directly and indirectly linked with health and mental health services, environments crucial to the development and maintenance of mental health such as schools, Veteran's Affairs Centers, laboratories, and in the field. CSUN COR was designed to strengthen and broaden students' research skills while providing them with opportunities for self-exploration and the development of a professional identity in the service of ensuring students' success in entering and succeeding in a doctoral program and entering research professions related to mental health.