Training The Science of Child Mental Health Treatment

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个新的机构国家研究服务奖（T32）的修订提案，旨在为儿童心理健康治疗研究的广泛领域的博士前和博士后水平的年轻研究者提供跨学科研究培训。学员将确定精神疾病的特定领域，并选择在不同层次上推进此类研究的研究策略——治疗机制、疗效研究方法和应用。受训者的总体目标是在儿童心理健康治疗研究的当前问题方面获得广泛的背景知识；了解相关的基础科学模型和方法；发展科学方法方面的专门知识，以便应用于儿童治疗研究；在指定的研究领域完成重要的独立研究；培养成为独立调查员所需的技能。该计划将形成与目前在该地区不存在的发展性精神病理学治疗相关问题的培训联系。研究培训将在障碍特定领域的转化交叉点进行，如儿童焦虑、多动症和破坏性障碍、自闭症谱系障碍、情绪障碍和自杀以及神经精神障碍，并检查治疗水平，如治疗机制或生物标志物、疗效研究方法或治疗研究的应用。核心培训经验将在学员自己的研究和与导师的密切互动中进行。此外，参与核心教学课程和补充课程和经验将提供广泛而具体的研究方法知识。学员注重基础研究和应用研究的结合将拓宽研究视角，并为合作研究项目的工作做好准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised proposal for a new Institutional National Research Service Award (T32) is designed to provide interdisciplinary research training to predoctoral and postdoctoral level young investigators in the broad area of child mental health treatment research. Trainees will identify specific areas of mental illness and chose research strategies that advance such research at a variety of levels-treatment mechanisms, efficacy study methodology, and applications. General goals for the trainees will be to obtain a broad background in current issues in child mental health treatment research; appreciate relevant basic science models and approaches; develop expertise in a scientific method for application to studies of child treatment; complete significant independent research in a designated area of research; and develop skills necessary for transitioning into an independent investigator. This program will form a nexus for training in issues pertaining to treatment of developmental psychopathologies which currently does not exist in the region. Research training will occur at the translational intersection of disorder-specific areas-child anxiety, ADHD and disruptive disorders, autism spectrum disorders, mood disorders and suicide, and neuropsychiatric disorders-with examination of levels of treatment, such as mechanisms or biomarkers of treatment, efficacy study methods, or application of treatment research. The core training experience will occur within the trainee's own research and in their close interaction with a preceptor. In addition, participation in core didactic coursework and supplementary coursework and experiences will provide broad and specific knowledge in research approaches. The combination of trainees focusing on basic and applied research will broaden research perspectives and prepare trainees for work in collaborative research projects. The proposed plan consists of training 5 postdoctoral students with medical or doctoral degrees and 2 predoctoral students. Postdoctoral trainees will possess clinical training in a discipline relevant to child mental health treatment, or plan to complete such training following the conclusion of the research training period. Predoctoral students will be drawn from Departments of Psychology, Education, Neuroscience, or Nursing at UCLA. The program will benefit from the breadth of active treatment research at UCLA and from the supplemental cross-disciplinary training available from a wide variety of departments, programs, research units, and other training activities.