Translational Research Training in Child Psychiatry

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的培训项目的使命是培训研究人员掌握当代多学科研究的方法和技术，以提高对产生儿童精神疾病的因果途径的认识，以及如何利用这些知识开发和提供干预措施，更有效地预防、管理或治疗这些疾病，从而改善儿童及其家庭的精神和情感健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of our training program is to train investigators in the methods and techniques of contemporary, multidisciplinary research that will improve knowledge of the causal pathways that produce psychiatric disorders in children, and how to use that knowledge to develop and deliver interventions that more effectively prevent, manage, or cure those disorders, and thereby improve the mental and emotional well being of children and their families. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Child Psychiatry Research Training Program at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute has been designed to increase the cadre of investigators trained to undertake quality research in child and adolescent psychopathology. The psychiatric disorders of childhood and adolescence are common and cause considerable distress and impairment yet they remain generally poorly studied and understood.