Training Program in Research on Black Child Development

描述(由申请者提供)：黑人儿童发展研究培训计划旨在培养心理学和相关学科的精选博士后学生和博士后研究员，为专注于非裔美国儿童和家庭的行为研究领域的杰出职业生涯做准备。要求每年向4名博士后学生和2名博士后研究员提供为期5年的支助。该项目的推动力是对训练有素的科学家的迫切需求，他们将促进对非裔美国儿童发育的了解。由于该项目将培养少数民族和非少数民族研究生和博士后研究员，它将满足持续提供训练有素的科学家的关键需求，这些科学家具备从事创新和示范性研究的能力，并在行为研究中更好地代表少数民族科学家。 该方案旨在实现几个相辅相成的目标：(A)使受训人员具备各种研究方法的专门知识，特别是纵向方法，及其在非裔美国人儿童和家庭行为研究中的应用；(B)促进对非裔美国人儿童的社会情感和心理教育发展、与健康有关的行为和身体健康的广泛、多学科和多层次的观点；(C)培养研究战略的能力，以提高非裔美国人人口研究的文化敏感性和有效性；(D)发展解决伦理问题的技能，特别是在与少数族裔和贫困儿童及其父母进行研究时容易出现的问题；以及(E)促进对发展研究在实践和政策问题上的应用的理解。 每名博士后学生和博士后研究员的培训将持续两年。博士前实习生通常在进入北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校心理学系发展心理学和临床心理学儿童/家庭分专业领域的研究生学习时开始该课程。所有受训人员将通过以下方式接受研究培训：(A)积极参加心理学和发展科学中心教师培训实验室的监督研究，(B)参加以少数民族研究问题和人口、人类发展、发展方法和政策问题为重点的高级研讨会和讲习班，以及(C)参加国家专业会议和暑期研究所。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Training Program in Research on Black Child Development seeks to prepare highly selected predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in psychology and related disciplines for distinguished careers in behavioral research focusing on African American children and families. Support for 4 predoctoral students and 2 postdoctoral fellows each year for a 5-year period is requested. The impetus for the program is the acute need for well-trained scientists who will advance knowledge about development in African American children. Because the program will train both ethnic minority and non-minority graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, it will serve the critical needs for a continuing supply of well trained scientists equipped to pursue innovative and exemplary research and a better representation of ethnic minority scientists in behavioral research. The program is structured to achieve several complementary goals: (a) to equip trainees with expertise in diverse research methodologies, especially longitudinal methods, and their application to the behavioral study of African American children and families; (b) to promote broad, multidisciplinary, and multi-level perspectives on African American children's socioemotional and psychoeducational development, health-related behaviors, and physical well being; (c) to foster competence in research strategies that enhance the cultural sensitivity and validity of research with African American populations; (d) to develop skills in addressing ethical issues, especially those prone to arise in research with ethnic minority and poor children and parents; and (e) to promote understanding of the application of developmental research to issues of practice and policy. Training of each predoctoral student and postdoctoral fellow will extend over a 2-year period. Predoctoral trainees typically will begin the program upon entry into graduate study in Developmental Psychology and the child/family subspeciality area of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill. All trainees will receive research training through (a) active participation in supervised research in the laboratory of training faculty in Psychology and the Center for Developmental Science, (b) participation in advanced seminars and workshops focusing on ethnic minority research issues and populations, human development, developmental methodology, and policy issues, and (c) involvement in national professional meetings and summer institutes.