NIMH Careers Opportunities in Research (COR) Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：目前的续期申请旨在从2007年至2012年的国家心理健康研究所获得我们COR项目的第六周期资金。与以前的周期一样，主要目标是为来自传统上代表性不足的背景的九名高年级心理学本科学生提供研究培训，以提高他们在与改善心理健康有关的心理学领域攻读博士学位的资格和动力。在我们的项目中，代表性不足的背景被定义为少数民族成员、低社会经济地位和/或第一代大学生。我们的COR计划是一个跨学科的计划安置在心理学系。我们专注于培养心理学学生是我们COR项目的一个独特特点，在最初申请时得到了NIMH的许可，在过去的25年里，我们成功地保持了这一传统。这个更新申请的愿景是建立在CSULB已经发展成为一个活跃的研究机构的势头之上。更具体地说，心理学系为有关心理健康和健康差异问题的基础和应用研究创造了肥沃的环境。拟议的COR计划将确保目前的势头导致更加综合和系统的努力，以培训和准备来自历史上代表性不足的群体的学生从事心理健康研究职业，以便最终这些学生更有资格进入研究生培训项目，从而获得博士或医学博士的研究职业学位。根据我们对CSULB过去的成功、可用资源和卓越潜力的评估，我们为COR计划的下一个周期制定了一个具体目标，即加强对心理健康研究培训的关注，同时保持过去培训计划的成功元素。拟议的COR计划将采用多管齐下的方法来实现这一目标：(a)为学生提供基础和高级研究方法和统计方面的强化培训；(b)使学生了解当前的心理健康问题和前沿的心理健康研究课题；及(c)让学生参与由心理学系教员进行的心理健康差异研究项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The present renewal application seeks renewed funding of our COR program from the National Institute of Mental Health for a sixth cycle from 2007 to 2012. As with prior cycles, the main goal is to provide research training for nine upper division undergraduate psychology students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to enhance their qualifications and motivation to pursue doctoral degrees in areas of psychology relevant to improving mental health. Underrepresented backgrounds are defined in our program as ethnic minority group membership, low socioeconomic status, and/or first generation college student. Our COR Program is a uni-disciplinary program housed in the Psychology Department. Our focus on training Psychology students is a unique characteristic of our COR Program that was permitted by NIMH at the time of the original application, and we have successfully maintained this tradition over the last 25 years. The vision for this renewal application is to build on a momentum that has been developing at CSULB to become an active research institution. More specifically, the Psychology Department has created a fertile environment for basic and applied research on issues related to mental health and health disparities. The proposed COR program will ensure that the current momentum leads to a more integrated and systematic efforts for training and preparing students from historically underrepresented groups for mental health research career so that ultimately these students are better qualified to enter graduate training programs that lead to doctoral-level or M.D. research career degrees. Based on our assessment of the past success, available resources, and potential for excellence at CSULB, we have developed a specific aim for the next cycle of the COR program, which is to strengthen its focus on mental health research training while maintaining the successful elements of the past training program. The proposed COR program will accomplish this aim using a multi-pronged approach: (a) offer students intensive training in basic and advanced research methods and statistics; (b) expose students to current issues in mental health and topics of cutting-edge mental health research; and (c) involve students in the mental health disparities research projects conducted by faculty in the Psychology Department.