Life-Span Development of Normal and Abnormal Behavior

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案寻求继续资金，以培训研究异常行为的发展、生命过程和预防的研究科学家。范德比尔特大学发展精神病理学研究培训计划的目标是：(A)培养受训人员成为发展精神病理学和预防科学跨学科领域的领先研究科学家；(B)为这些领域的成熟和发展提供一个全国性的论坛；以及(C)提高在这些领域进行的研究的质量。到目前为止，在14年的资助期间，该计划成功地实现了所有三个目标。获得该计划资助的学员中，77%在大学和医学院担任研究和/或教学职位，或继续他们的研究培训。作为该计划的结果，在过去十年中，48名现任和前任实习生在全国会议上完成了220篇文章和312次演讲。通过访问学者计划建立了该领域的论坛，该计划导致了高度刺激和互惠互利的讨论、联合手稿和合作研究项目。范德比尔特大学的研究质量得到了提高，这一点从教职员工的反馈和过去五年分配给项目教职员工的研究补助金资金的增加两个方面都可以看出。教师和实习生的研究集中在内在性障碍、外在性障碍、认知和学习障碍、基本情感、认知和生物过程以及预防和治疗方面。请拨经费用于两类受训人员：(A)高级博士后受训人员(每年6个职位)和(B)博士后受训人员(每年6个职位)。该计划强调该领域的跨学科性质，学员来自不同的背景，教职员工来自临床、发展、社会和量化心理学、精神病学、儿科学、药理学、社会学和教育学。该计划的基础是以学徒为基础的研究指导。所有受训人员都参加每周一次的研讨会，参加研讨会的有项目教职员工和知名访问学者。通过课程作业、研讨会和其他经验，为学员开发个性化的课程。该项目是心理学和人类发展系(皮博迪学院)和心理学系(艺术和理科)的合资项目，由范德比尔特大学约翰·F·肯尼迪人类发展研究中心管理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks continuation funds to train research scientists studying the development, life course, and prevention of abnormal behavior. The goals of the Vanderbilt University Developmental Psychopathology Research Training Program are to: (a) prepare trainees to become leading research scientists in the interdisciplinary fields of developmental psychopathology and prevention science; (b) provide a national forum for the maturation and evolution of these fields, and (c) enhance the quality of research being conducted in these fields. During the fourteen years of funding thus far, this program has been successful in achieving all three goals. Seventy-seven percent of trainees who have been funded by this program hold research and/or teaching positions in universities and medical schools or continue their research training. As a result of the program, the 48 current and former trainees during the last decade have completed 220 articles and 312 presentations at national conferences. A forum for the field has been established through a Visiting Scholars program that has led to highly stimulating and mutually beneficial discussions, joint manuscripts, and collaborative research projects. The quality of research at Vanderbilt University has been enhanced, as indicated by both faculty feedback and an increase in research grant funds awarded to program faculty during the past five years. Faculty and trainee research has focused on internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, disorders of cognition and learning, basic emotional, cognitive, and biogical processes, and prevention and treatment. Funds are requested for two types of trainees: (a) advanced predoctoral trainees (six positions per year) and (b) postdoctoral trainees (six positions per year). The program emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field in that trainees come from diverse backgrounds and faculty are represented from clinical, developmental, social, and quantitative psychology, psychiatry, pediatrics, pharmacology, sociology, and education. The foundation of the program is apprenticeship-based research mentoring. All trainees participate in an ongoing weekly proseminar attended by program faculty and renowned Visiting Scholars. Individualized programs are developed for trainees through coursework, workshops, and other experiences. The program is a joint venture of the Departments of Psychology and Human Development (Peabody College) and Psychology (Arts and Science), administered through the John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development at Vanderbilt University.