PREVENTING DEPRESSION IN COUPLES FACING JOB LOSS

这一拟议的合作研究项目（R-10）是一个 关于预防情绪和 工作经历的个人和家庭的行为障碍 密歇根州预防研究中心的调查人员继续调查 密歇根大学（NIMH批准号5P50MH38330）和中心 在乔治华盛顿大学的家庭研究中， 项目汇集了来自每个研究的独特科学资源 团队，当合并时，将产生预防性干预措施， 夫妇经历失业危机，无法实现的， 任何一个队单独。密歇根集团带来了十多年的 开展大规模随机纵向预防性研究的经验 在两个独立的试验中测试了成功的JOBS预防性干预措施， 复制品 最近的复制包括来自配偶的数据， 重要的其他人。 他们还带来了大量的专业知识， 培训、开发和提供求职干预措施，以及更多 最近，在应对经济困难。乔治华盛顿团队 在研究家庭如何应对 危机，包括新的基于经验的理论模型的夫妇 互动和心理健康，以及他们目前的纵向数据 夫妻应对失业危机的社会支持研究 在 此外，他们带来了新的行为措施，夫妇互动派生 通过对夫妻生活录像的微观分析研究， 应对失业危机的互动。 拟议的合作研究将涉及开发一个新的 对失业夫妇的预防性干预， 预防抑郁症和破坏亲密关系， 将：1）让夫妇双方参与干预; 2）集中精力 将伴侣双方的心理健康作为心理健康目标; 3） 阐述了一个关于夫妻应对失业的理论， 个人层面和夫妇层面的过程; 4）借鉴新兴的 调查结果从两个网站在设计新的夫妇为导向 预防性干预; 5）提供复制的机会， 测试预防性干预措施的普遍性， 在两个地点进行平行对照干预试验。作为 夫妻干预的合作发展，复制 将在每个研究中心进行随机试验， 对300对实验夫妇进行筛查、预测试和干预， 150对对照组夫妇在干预后立即进行后测， 六个月和一年。 拟议的R-10合作还将 使人们有可能检验预防性干预的普遍性， 两个地点和两个主要部门的理论和调查结果， 经济，制造业继续稳步下滑， 服务业继续保持大幅增长。

This proposed collaborative research project (R-10) is the next step in a coordinated program of research on the prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders in individuals and families experiencing job loss.Pursued by investigators at the Michigan Prevention Research Center of the University of Michigan (NIMH Grant No. 5P50MH38330) and the Center for Family Research at the George Washington University, the proposed R-10 project brings together unique scientific resources from each research team that, when combined, will produce a preventive intervention for couples experiencing the crisis of job loss that could not be achieved by either team alone. The Michigan group brings more than ten years of experience in conducting large scale randomized longitudinal preventive trials testing the successful JOBS preventive intervention in two separate replications. The most recent replication includes data from spouses and significant others. They also bring substantial expertise in the training, development and delivery of job search interventions, and, more recently, on coping with economic hardship. The George Washington team brings ten years of experience in the study of how families deal with crises, including new empirically based theoretical models of couples' interaction and mental health, and data from their current longitudinal study of social support in couples coping with the crisis of job loss. In addition, they bring new behavioral measures of couple interaction derived from micro-analytic studies of videotaped recordings of couples' interaction coping with the crisis of job loss. The proposed collaborative study will involve the development of a new preventive intervention for couples experiencing job loss aimed at the prevention of depression and the disruption of intimate relationships that will: 1) involve both partners of the couple in the intervention; 2) focus on the mental health of both partners as mental health targets; 3) elaborate a theory of couples coping with job loss, attending to both individual level and couples level processes; 4) draw on the emerging findings from the two sites in designing the new couples-oriented preventive intervention; and 5) provide an opportunity for replication to test generalizability of the preventive interventions, by conducting parallel controlled intervention trials at both sites. As an outgrowth of the collaborative development of the couples intervention, replicated randomized trials at each site will be conducted that will involve screening, pre-test, and intervention with 300 experimental couples and 150 control led couples with post-tests immediately after intervention at six months and at one year. The proposed R-10 collaboration will also make it possible to test the generalizability of preventive intervention theory and findings across two sites and across two major sectors of the economy, the manufacturing sector which continues its steady decline and the service economy which continues a pattern of substantial growth.