Center for the Study of Schools as a Context for Urban Children's Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：这个拟议的DCISIR的主要目标是通过推进研究和实践来支持学校促进儿童心理健康的固有能力，解决生活在城市贫困中的儿童的心理健康需求。拟建的城市儿童心理健康背景下学校研究中心是伊利诺斯大学芝加哥分校的一个虚拟中心，它将弗吉尼亚大学、田纳西大学、南卡罗来纳医科大学以及生物统计学（伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校）和精神健康实践（社区精神健康委员会）的领先项目。我们建议，这种观点的整合将产生对心理健康和教育资源协调的新理解，并改变城市青年有效干预研究的重点和性质。学校作为组织，教室作为促进学习和适应的关键互动发生的环境，这一DCISIR的指导思想。这种注重环境的做法旨在确定和利用学校和社区内的土著资源，改变城市贫困青年上学的社会环境，增加儿童获得积极心理健康和学业成果的机会。我们的多学科研究计划将从组织理论、发展生态理论和教育研究中汲取经验，以：(a)评估城市学校中干扰或促进儿童教育和心理健康的特定社会背景因素，(b)确定和动员土著学校和社区资源作为变革的催化剂，以及(c)促进和研究创新干预战略和方法的可行性和影响。通过计划的合作活动和研究项目，DCISIR将(1)创建并采用新颖的方法方法，(2)运用整合的理论视角来研究与心理健康促进相关的社会环境的核心维度，(3)创建和支持可持续的社区伙伴关系，(4)为在可持续的跨学科研究团队中工作的早期职业研究人员提供培训和指导。与公共卫生的相关性：拟议的城市儿童心理健康问题研究所的主要目标是，通过推进研究和实践，支持学校促进儿童心理健康的固有能力，解决生活在城市贫困中的儿童的心理健康需求。通过一项多学科研究方案，城市儿童教育和心理研究将：(a)评估城市学校中干扰或促进儿童教育和心理健康的特定社会背景因素，(b)确定和调动土著学校和社区资源作为变革的催化剂，以及(c)促进和研究创新干预战略和方法的可行性和影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this proposed DCISIR is to address the mental health needs of children living in urban poverty by advancing research and practice to support the inherent capacity of schools to promote children's mental health. The proposed Center for the Study of Schools as a Context for Urban Children's Mental Health is a virtual center based at the University of Illinois Chicago, linking research programs of leading investigators in education and mental health services research at the University of Virginia, the University of Tennessee, and the Medical University of South Carolina along with leading programs in biostatistics (University of Illinois Chicago) and mental health practice (Community Mental Health Council). We propose that this integration of perspectives will yield a new understanding of the coordination of mental health and educational resources and shift the foci and nature of research on effective interventions for urban youth. This DCISIR is guided by an understanding of schools as organizations and of classrooms as the setting in which critical interactions occur that promote learning and adjustment. This contextual focus aims to identify and leverage indigenous resources within schools and communities to change the social context of schooling for youth in urban poverty and increase the chances for positive mental health and academic outcomes for children. Our program of multidisciplinary research will draw from organizational theory, developmental-ecological theory, and education research to: (a) assess select social contextual factors within urban schools that disrupt or enhance children's education and mental health, (b) identify and mobilize indigenous school and community resources as catalysts for change, and (c) promote and study the feasibility and impact of innovative intervention strategies and methods. Through planned collaborative activities and research projects, the DCISIR will (1) create and adopt novel methodological approaches, (2) apply integrated theoretical perspectives to examine the core dimensions of social context associated with mental health promotion, (3) create and support sustainable community partnerships, and (4) provide training and mentoring for early career researchers working within sustainable interdisciplinary research teams. Relevance to Public Health: The primary goal of this proposed DCISIR is to address the mental health needs of children living in urban poverty by advancing research and practice to support the inherent capacity of schools to promote children's mental health. Through a program of multidisciplinary research, this DCISIR will: (a) assess select social contextual factors within urban schools that disrupt or enhance children's education and mental health, (b) identify and mobilize indigenous school and community resources as catalysts for change, and (c) promote and study the feasibility and impact of innovative intervention strategies and methods.