ADULT SCIENCE EDUCATION--BRIDGING THE GAP

得克萨斯州成瘾科学教育中心(TASEC)在 该大学将填补两国之间的信息鸿沟 从事ADAMHA相关活动的教育工作者/科学家和成年人 普罗大众。这将通过在以下方面建立合作伙伴关系来实现 大学教职员工，德克萨斯州酒精和药物滥用委员会，以及 非营利性媒体导向的酒精中毒与药物研究传播 中心。目标人群将是那些受 化学品滥用、成瘾和精神疾病：受害者、受害者的 家庭、受害者雇主和组织中的个人必须 意识到或处理这些混乱的后果(神职人员， 公共住房、刑事司法、缓刑、社会工作者、辅导员、 等)。教学方法将包括：动态、互动的研讨会 多媒体演示格式；实验研讨会，在这些研讨会中 观众参与视频和交互式计算机演示； 研讨会和讲习班的简短录像带版本，供 分发给更广泛的受众；继续教育审查，有时 为需要专业知识的人提供随附的录像带套餐 认证；以及基于计算机的互动计划，包括 在座谈会和研讨会上介绍的材料。的有效性。 信息交换和利用将通过预计划和 由科学教育评估设计的项目后调查问卷 专家，并对选定的参与者进行为期1年、2年和3年的跟踪调查。 TASEC的两个创新方面将是1)强调赋权 选择受众向他人讲授新的研究成果(上瘾 辅导员通常是受害者家庭的教育者，因为教育是 恢复的重要部分)，以及2)培训实验室科学家 公众教育和媒体展示技能，通过专门的 在奥斯汀和ADAMHA资助的全国各地的研究中心举办研讨会。 这些方面提供了强大的教育网络和自我复制 大学里已经存在的重要技能。TASEC将 专注于德克萨斯州的观众，除了在媒体上培训其他科学家 技能和外行语言表达。因此，以大学为基础的中心 将极大地影响德克萨斯州公民的神经科学，化学滥用， 成瘾和精神疾病，但有能力复制它的 通过对其他州的科学家进行培训来增强他们的优势。这个 德克萨斯州的承诺由该大学的 对首席调查员和协理调查员的薪金承诺 和释放时间，以及由TASEC提供的部分匹配资金 德克萨斯州酒精和药物滥用委员会。

The establishment of a Texas Addiction Science Education Center (TASEC) at the University will fill a void in bridging the information gap between educators/scientists performing ADAMHA-related activities and the adult general public. This will be done by setting up partnerships among University faculty, the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, and the non-profit media-oriented Alcoholism and Drug Research Communications Center. The target population will be those who are most impacted by chemical abuse, addictive and mental diseases: victims, victims' families, victims' employers, and individuals in organizations which must be aware of or deal with the consequences of these disorders (clergy, public housing, criminal justice, probation, social workers, counselors, etc.). Methods of instruction will include: dynamic, interactive symposia with a multimedia presentation format; experimental workshops in which audiences participate in video and interactive computer demonstrations; abbreviated videotape versions of the symposia and workshops, for distribution to wider audiences; continuing education reviews, sometimes with accompanying videotape packages for those who require professional accreditation; and interactive computer-based programs which cover material presented in the symposia and workshops. The effectiveness of information exchange and utilization will be evaluated by pre-program and post-program questionnaires designed by a science education evaluation specialist, and by 1-, 2-, and 3-year follow-ups of selected participants. Two innovative aspects of the TASEC will be 1) an emphasis on empowering select audiences to teach others about new research findings (addiction counselors are usually educators of victims' families, since education is an important part of recovery), and 2) training laboratory scientists in public education and media presentation skills, through specialized workshops in Austin and ADAMHA-funded research centers around the nation. These aspects provide powerful education networking and self-replication of important skills which already exist at the University. The TASEC will focus on Texas audiences, except for training of other scientists on media skills and lay-language presentation. Thus the University-based center will highly impact the citizens of Texas on neuroscience, chemical abuse, addiction and mental diseases, yet have the ability to replicate its strengths through the training of scientists in other states. The commitment of the state of Texas is illustrated by the University's commitment to the principal investigator and co-investigators' salaries and release time, and by partially-matched funding for the TASEC by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse.