Research Training in Drug Abuse Behavior

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训计划由Thomas Garrity和Carl Leukefeld共同指导，计划从大学六个不同的学术和研究单位中挑选24名培训教师，支持3名博士生和3名博士后。环境为生物行为研究提供了丰富的机会，如药物和酒精研究中心，药物和酒精研究和翻译中心，以及住宅研究设施。学员将被安置在其研究主管的办公室和实验室，每天24小时使用实验室和计算机设施。该方案的目的是准备受训者承担研究责任的学术和其他科学组织有关药物滥用和行为方面的健康和医疗保健。博士后研究员要么拥有行为科学学科的博士学位，准备从事药物滥用领域的研究工作，要么是正在寻求药物滥用行为科学研究方向的卫生专业人员。博士预科学员将集中研究药物滥用的行为方面，作为行为科学学科博士课程的一部分。该计划的基本要素包括：(1)研究培训，旨在提供利用研究的基本组成部分（访谈，案例研究，实验设计，仪器开发和预测试，数据分析）和独立研究能力的经验；(2)跨学科方向，使学生超越其基础学科，并提供接触相关行为科学的关键理论概念和方法问题以及生物行为概念化；(3)药物滥用、健康和精神健康环境的适应和指导方案；(4)通过培训教师提供的课程，从医学行为角度探讨药物滥用问题的机会；(5)围绕药物滥用行为相关问题进行研究的机会，这些问题可以构成博士后的重要学习经历和博士生的学位论文项目。博士后项目将根据研究人员的个人目标，建立在他们以前的知识和经验的基础上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program co-directed by Thomas Garrity and Carl Leukefeld proposes to support three pre and three postdoctoral trainees with a training faculty of 24 drawn from six different academic and research units of the University. The environment is rich with opportunities for biobehavioral research in facilities such as the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, the Center for Drug and Alcohol Research and Translation, and the Residential Research Facility. Trainees will be housed in offices and laboratories of their research supervisor with 24 hour/day access to laboratories and computer facilities. This program is designed to prepare trainees to assume research responsibilities in academic, and other scientific organizations concerned with drug abuse and the behavioral aspects of health and medical care. Postdoctoral fellows will either have a doctorate in a behavioral science discipline and will be preparing for a research role in the drug abuse field, or they will be health professionals who are seeking a behavioral science research orientation in drug abuse. Predoctoral trainees will concentrate in behavioral aspects of drug abuse as part of their program for a doctorate in a behavioral science discipline. Basic elements of the program include: (1) research training designed to provide experience in utilizing the basic building blocks of research (interviewing, case study, experimental design, development and pretesting of instruments, data analysis) and independent research competence; (2) an interdisciplinary orientation which takes students beyond their basic discipline and provides exposure to key theoretical concepts and methodological issues of the related behavioral sciences along with a biobehavioral'conceptualization; (3) a program of enculturation and orientation to drug abuse, health and mental health settings; (4) opportunities to explore drug abuse topics from a medical behavioral perspective through courses offered by training faculty; and (5) opportunities for research around relevant questions in drug abuse behavior that can constitute significant learning experiences for postdoctoral fellows and a dissertation project for predoctoral trainees. The program for postdoctoral fellows will be individually geared to the objectives of the fellows and will build on their previous knowledge and experience.