PROSOCIAL FAMILY FACTORS, CULTURE AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

描述（申请人摘要）：此职业奖支持培训 候选人成为杰出的独立调查员， 家庭因素、文化和精神分裂症病程的研究。 的 三年计划的具体目标是让候选人获得 两个领域的正规培训：人类学方法和理论，以及家庭 互动的方法和理论。 哈佛大学的亚瑟克莱曼博士 加州大学洛杉矶分校的罗伯特埃杰顿博士将担任候选人的导师， 他的人类学训练 艾伦·贝拉克博士， 巴尔的摩的马里兰州将担任他的主要导师， 家庭互动沿着与其他家庭的杰出团队 研究人员 该奖项的前两年将包括正式的 通过课程作业和研究研讨会以及个人 与导师和同事一起学习。 第三年 培训将主要包括指导性研究监督， 申请人在洛杉矶地区精神病院进行了一项试点研究（N=15） 健康中心。 除了提供重要的培训经验外， 这项研究将有助于实现评估家庭的总体研究目标， 成员的亲社会行为，因为他们涉及到稳定的过程， 精神分裂症 墨西哥裔家庭将作为研究参与者 因为先前的研究表明，他们的温暖程度与一个 稳定航线 文化因素和家庭互动方式将 评估家庭关系的文化基础，特别是 亲社会家庭功能 确定亲社会家庭的作用 患者临床病程中的因素对家庭有重要意义 精神分裂症的影响因素研究和家庭治疗。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): This career award supports the training of the candidate to become an outstanding independent investigator in the study of family factors, culture, and the course of schizophrenia. The specific aims of the three-year program are for the candidate to receive formal training in two area: anthropological methods and theory, and family interaction methods and theory. Dr. Arthur Kleinman at Harvard University and Dr. Robert Edgerton at UCLA will serve as the candidate's mentors for his anthropological training. Dr. Alan Bellack at the University of Maryland at Baltimore will serve as his primary mentor in the study of family interactions along with a distinguished team of other family researchers. The first two years of the award will include formal instruction through coursework and research seminars, as well as individual studies with the mentors and their colleagues. The third year of the training will be largely comprised of guided research supervision while the applicant carries out a pilot study (N=15) at a Los Angeles area mental health center. In addition to providing important training experience, the study will serve to meet the overall research objective of assessing family members' prosocial behaviors as they relate to the stable course of schizophrenia. Mexican origin families will serve as research participants because prior research indicates that their degree of warmth is related to a stable course. Culture-specific factors and family interaction styles will be assessed to examine the cultural basis of family relations, particularly prosocial family functioning. Identifying the role of prosocial family factors in patients' clinical course has important implications for family factors research and family treatments of schizophrenia.