Developmental Psychology Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：密歇根大学发展心理学课程旨在培养学生成为具有创造力，精通的学者，他们将在发展科学中追求健全，有意义的基础和转化研究事业，追求补助金申请，并在未来成为优秀的教师和导师。该计划包括23名核心教师，在心理学系拥有140多名教师，并与密歇根大学其他部门和研究中心互动，另有38名发展研究人员。课程和研究培训机会都是广泛和深入的程序，部门和大学社区。发展领域内的研究培训的广泛主题包括：跨越生命的过渡;背景的作用;生物学视角;发展模式和方法，以及整合理论，研究和实践的转化研究。这些主题在神经科学，认知，语言，社会情感发展和发展精神病理学的受训者特定研究培训中得以实现。在跨学科中心、跨文化和国际环境、学校和诊所进行培训，以及将研究应用于教育成就和社会经济不利地位方面的种族和性别差距等政策问题，都有独特的机会。要求每年为四名博士前和两名博士后受训人员提供支助，为期五年，与国家排雷中心培训补助金上一个培训期的职位数目一致。学员是从一个高度选择性的明星申请人池中挑选出来的，特别注意招收来自代表性不足的少数民族的学生。我们的毕业生的记录一直特别强劲，我们的许多少数民族学员现在在突出的专业职位。该计划拥有一流的物理设施和资源，我们是国际知名的心理学系的一部分，为我们的学员提供最先进的设备和实验室空间。 公共卫生相关性：发展心理学课程通过其对认知，语言和识字发展的研究与教育高度相关，以社会情感发展，家庭过程和关系研究为重点的心理健康问题，以性别，社会经济地位和少数民族健康差异为研究的社会正义，以及在儿童，学龄，青春期、向成年的过渡和衰老。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The program in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan is designed to prepare its students to be creative, proficient scholars who will pursue sound, meaningful basic and translational research careers in developmental science, pursue grant applications, and be excellent teachers and mentors in the future. The program includes 23 core faculty, is in the Department of Psychology with more than 140 faculty, and interacts with other University of Michigan departments and research centers with an additional 38 developmental researchers. Courses and research training opportunities are both broad and in depth within the program, the Department, and the University community. The broad themes of research training within the developmental area include: Transitions across the Lifespan; the Role of Context; Biological Perspectives; Developmental Models and Methods, and Translational Research Integrating Theory, Research and Practice. These themes are actualized in trainee-specific research training in neuroscience, cognitive, language, socioemotional development, and developmental psychopathology. Unique opportunities exist for training in interdisciplinary centers, cross- cultural, and international settings, schools and clinics, and for the application of research to policy issues such as ethnic and gender gaps in educational achievement and socio-economic disadvantage. Support is requested for four predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees per year for a period of five years, consistent with the number of positions in the previous training period of this NICHD training grant. Trainees are chosen from a highly selective pool of stellar applicants, with special attention given to recruiting students from underrepresented minorities. The record of our graduates has been especially strong, with many of our minority trainees now in prominent professional positions. The program has excellent physical facilities and resources, and we are part of an internationally eminent psychology department with state of the art-equipment and laboratory space available to our trainees. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The developmental psychology program is highly relevant to education through its research on cognitive, language, and literacy development, to mental health problems with its focus on socioemotional development, family process, and relationship research, to social justice with its research on gender, socioeconomic status, and minority health disparities, and overall to healthy development and social adjustment across the lifespan during childhood, school-age, adolescence, the transition to adulthood and aging.