Training Program in Research on Black Child Development

描述（由申请人提供）：黑人儿童发展研究培训计划旨在培养精心挑选的心理学及相关学科的博士前学生和博士后研究员，以在针对非裔美国儿童和家庭的行为研究领域取得杰出的职业生涯。要求每年为 4 名博士前学生和 2 名博士后研究员提供为期 5 年的支持。该计划的推动力是迫切需要训练有素的科学家，他们将增进对非裔美国儿童发展的了解。由于该计划将培训少数民族和非少数民族研究生和博士后，因此它将满足持续提供训练有素的科学家的关键需求，这些科学家有能力进行创新和示范性研究，并在行为研究中更好地代表少数民族科学家。 该计划的结构是为了实现几个互补的目标：(a) 为学员​​提供各种研究方法的专业知识，特别是纵向方法，及其在非裔美国儿童和家庭行为研究中的应用； (b) 促进对非裔美国儿童的社会情感和心理教育发展、健康相关行为和身体健康的广泛、多学科和多层次的观点； (c) 培养研究战略的能力，以提高非裔美国人研究的文化敏感性和有效性； (d) 培养解决伦理问题的技能，特别是在对少数族裔和贫困儿童及家长进行研究时容易出现的问题； (e) 促进对发展研究在实践和政策问题上的应用的理解。 每个博士前学生和博士后的培训将持续两年以上。博士前培训生通常将在进入北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校心理学系发展心理学和临床心理学儿童/家庭亚专业领域的研究生学习后开始该计划。所有学员将通过以下方式接受研究培训：(a) 积极参与心理学培训教师实验室和发展科学中心的监督研究，(b) 参加重点关注少数民族研究问题和人口、人类发展、发展方法论和政策问题的高级研讨会和讲习班，以及 (c) 参加国家专业会议和暑期学院。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Training Program in Research on Black Child Development seeks to prepare highly selected predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in psychology and related disciplines for distinguished careers in behavioral research focusing on African American children and families. Support for 4 predoctoral students and 2 postdoctoral fellows each year for a 5-year period is requested. The impetus for the program is the acute need for well-trained scientists who will advance knowledge about development in African American children. Because the program will train both ethnic minority and non-minority graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, it will serve the critical needs for a continuing supply of well trained scientists equipped to pursue innovative and exemplary research and a better representation of ethnic minority scientists in behavioral research. The program is structured to achieve several complementary goals: (a) to equip trainees with expertise in diverse research methodologies, especially longitudinal methods, and their application to the behavioral study of African American children and families; (b) to promote broad, multidisciplinary, and multi-level perspectives on African American children's socioemotional and psychoeducational development, health-related behaviors, and physical well being; (c) to foster competence in research strategies that enhance the cultural sensitivity and validity of research with African American populations; (d) to develop skills in addressing ethical issues, especially those prone to arise in research with ethnic minority and poor children and parents; and (e) to promote understanding of the application of developmental research to issues of practice and policy. Training of each predoctoral student and postdoctoral fellow will extend over a 2-year period. Predoctoral trainees typically will begin the program upon entry into graduate study in Developmental Psychology and the child/family subspeciality area of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill. All trainees will receive research training through (a) active participation in supervised research in the laboratory of training faculty in Psychology and the Center for Developmental Science, (b) participation in advanced seminars and workshops focusing on ethnic minority research issues and populations, human development, developmental methodology, and policy issues, and (c) involvement in national professional meetings and summer institutes.