PROMOTING URBAN CHILD MENTAL HEALTH & SERVICE USE

促进城市儿童心理健康

• 批准号: 6691073
• 负责人: Mary McKernan McKay
• 金额: $ 12.65万
• 依托单位: ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-12-01 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6691073
• 关键词: African American; behavioral /social science research tag; child mental health service; clinical research; community; family; health care service evaluation; health care service utilization; health services research tag; human subject; social perception; social support network; urban poverty area

This is a request for an NIMH Independent Scientist Award. It will enable the applicant to develop a research career plan which focuses on examining factors that influence the mental health of low-income African American children as well as their involvement in mental health prevention and intervention programs. An additional aim is to develop and test the impact of engagement interventions on both initial and ongoing involvement in child mental health focused programs. This program of research builds upon two federally funded studies and extensive research experience in the area of urban child mental health. Plans have been developed for consultation and participation in advanced scientific education to achieve the following objective: 1) immersing the applicant in specifying the perspectives of urban children and their caregivers in relation to involvement in mental health programs through the use of existing data and a process of ongoing collaboration with urban parents; 2) continuing to develop a sophisticated understanding of advanced basic and intervention research designs and methods; 3) advancing my abilities to bring the most sophisticated statistical methods to data already gathered from low income, African American children and families and; 4) preparing myself to conduct child mental health focused studies within urban, community-based settings. An Independent Scientist Award at this stage of applicants career will support a social work investigator in providing leadership in: 1) advancing empirically supported practice specifically focused in the area of child mental health; 2) mentoring pre and post-doctoral social work students in the development of research skills, particularly focused on meeting the needs of urban children and families; 3) supporting junior social work faculty members as they begin early child mental health services research efforts; 4) providing research data that represents the perspective of a highly vulnerable, often significantly under-represented population of children and their families to the field of mental health and; 5) advocating for multi-disciplinary research efforts that concentrate on the development of an ecologically grounded understanding of the multiple influences on child mental health and service use.

这是对NIMH独立科学家奖的请求。它将使申请者能够制定一项研究职业计划，重点审查影响低收入非裔美国儿童心理健康的因素，以及他们参与心理健康预防和干预计划的情况。另一个目标是开发和测试参与干预措施对儿童心理健康重点项目的初始和持续参与的影响。这一研究计划建立在联邦政府资助的两项研究和城市儿童心理健康领域的广泛研究经验的基础上。已经制定了咨询和参与高级科学教育的计划，以实现以下目标：1)通过使用现有数据和与城市家长持续合作的过程，使申请人深入说明城市儿童及其照顾者对参与精神健康计划的看法；2)继续对先进的基础和干预研究设计和方法有深入的了解；3)提高我的能力，将最先进的统计方法应用到已经从低收入、非裔美国儿童和家庭收集的数据中；4)使自己做好准备，在以城市和社区为基础的环境中进行以儿童心理健康为重点的研究。在申请者职业生涯的这个阶段，独立科学家奖将支持社会工作调查员在以下方面提供领导：1)促进专门关注儿童心理健康领域的经验性支持的实践；2)指导博士后和博士后社会工作学生发展研究技能，特别是侧重于满足城市儿童和家庭的需求；3)支持初级社会工作教员开始早期儿童精神健康服务研究工作；4)提供研究数据，代表高度脆弱、往往明显代表不足的儿童及其家庭群体对精神健康领域的观点；5)倡导多学科的研究努力，集中于发展对儿童心理健康和服务使用的多重影响的生态基础的理解。