Postdoctoral Training in Posttraumatic Stress Disorders

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份博士后培训计划的竞争性续期申请的重新提交，旨在培养有资格在PTSD和相关心理社会状况研究中担任独立调查员的临床研究人员。该培训项目设在VA波士顿医疗保健系统，隶属于波士顿大学医学院和哈佛医学院。该奖学金位于国家创伤后应激障碍行为科学部和妇女健康科学部。它包括三个主要部分：(a)教学/研讨会部分，旨在提供创伤后应激障碍理论、评估和治疗、研究、研究方法、少数民族和跨文化问题以及负责任的研究行为的基础；(b)在一名或多名主要导师指导下着重于直接研究经验的组成部分；(c)临床组成部分，旨在在PTSD服务提供专家的监督下提供概念和实践掌握。核心教师来自不同的临床科学背景，对压力、创伤和健康有广泛的研究兴趣；与VA波士顿和波士顿大学医学院/波士顿医学中心的其他单位和项目的联系提供了额外的培训和研究机会。通过与波士顿难民健康和人权中心以及波士顿大学全国儿童创伤压力倡议的联系，博士后有机会培训和研究不同的创伤暴露人群。为这个项目选择支持教师来补充核心教师的技能，并结合更广泛的行为和临床科学，与NIMH的目标和宗旨相一致。这些活动的城市环境确保了所服务和研究人群的民族、种族、社会经济和文化多样性。该培训项目的教员继续致力于招募少数族裔候选人，并提供针对特殊和少数族裔人群的研究培训。此申请表提供了有关培训计划的目标、性质和迄今为止取得的成就的详细信息。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a resubmission of a competing continuation application for funding for a postdoctoral training program aimed at producing clinical researchers who are qualified to serve as independent investigators in the study of PTSD and related psychosocial conditions. The training program is housed at VA Boston Healthcare System, affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. The fellowship is located within the National Center for PTSD's Behavioral Science Division and Women's Health Sciences Division. It subsumes three major components: (a) a didactic/seminar component designed to provide foundations in PTSD theory, assessment, and treatment, research, research methodology, minority and cross-cultural issues, and the responsible conduct of research; (b) a component focused on direct research experience under the guidance of one or more primary mentors; and (c) a clinical component designed to offer conceptual and practical mastery with supervision by experts in PTSD service delivery. The core faculty are drawn from varied backgrounds in clinical science with a broad array of research interests related to stress, trauma, and health; affiliations with other units and programs at both the VA Boston and Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center complex afford additional training and research opportunities. Through its affiliation with the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights and the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative at BU, opportunities exist for postdoctoral fellows to train and study diverse trauma exposed populations. Support faculty for this program are selected to supplement the skills of core faculty and to incorporate a broader range of behavioral and clinical science consistent with the NIMH's goals and objectives. The urban setting for these activities insures ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and cultural diversity in the populations served and researched. The faculty of this training program continue their commitment to recruit minority candidates and to provide training in research with special and minority populations. This application provides details regarding the objectives, nature, and achievements of the training program to date.