Training Program in Social Development

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是对马里兰大学社会发展博士预科培训计划的津贴、学费和额外支持的更新申请的修订。该计划将侧重于社会发展的多层次培训，包括社会情感、社会认知、社会神经科学、社会关系和社会文化过程，并将包括正常和临床人群。我们建议在五年的拨款期内，使用NIH的资金和马里兰大学的配套资金，共培训12名学员。该培训计划将提供社会发展领域的科学知识和研究经验，为担任高等教育机构的教员和专门研究机构的调查人员的博士预科学员做好准备。该项目涉及9名核心教师和14名附属教师。核心教师来自人类发展学系的发展科学专业。附属教师包括马里兰大学人类发展、统计学和心理学部门的学者，以及来自校外机构（如乔治城大学、乔治梅森大学、NICHD、NIMH）的学者。博士预科生在人类发展学系攻读博士学位。受训人员通过课程作业、统计和方法论工作、研究学徒，以及在每周一次的儿童、关系和文化中心系列研讨会上接触来自各个领域的前沿研究和学者/科学家，进行研究并获得社会发展知识。这项研究对儿童社会发展方面的公共卫生具有多方面的意义。学员将接受培训，在高等教育中就各种领域的适应性和非适应性社会行为的病因和发展过程进行研究和讲授课程。研究课题包括与健康社会发展的风险因素和保护因素相关的因素，如社会、情感和动机能力的发展；发展牢固、健康的人际关系；有欺凌、攻击、社会退缩、受害和社会排斥的经历；道德判断和偏见在排斥中的作用；以及亲子关系和师生关系在发展结果中的作用。因此，该计划与公共卫生密切相关，因为课程、研究、作为完成该计划的功能而开发的专业知识以及培训所涵盖的主题都与促进、促进和保持个人的健康发展有关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a revision of a renewal application for stipends, tuition, and additional support for a pre-doctoral Training Program in Social Development at the University of Maryland. The program will focus on multi-level training in social development, including socio-affective, social-cognitive, social neuroscientific, social-relational, and social-cultural processes, and will include normal and clinical populations. We propose to train a total of 12 trainees over the five year period of the grant, using funds from NIH and matching funds from the University of Maryland. The training program will provide scientific knowledge and research experience in the area of social development that prepares pre-doctoral trainees for positions as faculty members in institutions of higher education and investigators in dedicated research institutions. The program involves 9 core faculty and 14 affiliated faculty. Core faculty members are from the Developmental Science specialization within the Department of Human Development. Affiliated faculty members include scholars in the departments of Human Development, Statistics, and Psychology at the University of Maryland as well as from off-campus institutions (e.g., Georgetown University, George Mason University, NICHD, NIMH). Pre-doctoral trainees are enrolled in the doctoral program in the Department of Human Development. Trainees conduct research and gain knowledge of social development through course work, statistical and methodological work, research apprenticeships, and exposure to cutting edge research and scholar/scientists from a variety of fields in a weekly Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture seminar series. The relevance of this research for public health regarding children's social development is multi-fold. Trainees will be trained to conduct research and teach courses in higher education on the etiology and developmental course of adaptive and maladaptive social behavior in a variety of areas. Research topics include factors associated with both risk and protective factors for healthy social development such as the development of social, emotional, and motivational competence; the development of strong, healthy interpersonal relationships; experiences with bullying, aggression, social withdrawal, victimization, and social rejection; the role of moral judgments and prejudice in exclusion; and the roles of parent-child and teacher-child relationships in developmental outcomes. Thus, the program is strongly related to public health in that the courses, the research, the expertise developed as a function of completing the program, and the topics covered in the training bear on fostering, faciliating, and maintaining the healthy development of individuals.