PROSOCIAL FAMILY FACTORS, CULTURE AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

描述(申请者摘要)：此职业奖励支持培训 成为一名杰出的独立调查员的候选人 家庭因素、文化和精神分裂症病程的研究。这个 为期三年的课程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Arthur Kleinman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。加州大学艾伦·贝拉克博士 马里兰州巴尔的摩分校将作为他研究 与其他家庭的杰出团队一起进行家庭互动 研究人员。该奖项的头两年将包括正式 通过课程作业和研究研讨会以及个人进行指导 与导师和他们的同事一起学习。公元前三年 培训将主要由指导性研究监督组成，而 申请者在洛杉矶地区精神病院进行一项先导研究(N=15) 健康中心。除了提供重要的培训经验外， 研究将有助于实现评估家庭的总体研究目标 成员的亲社会行为与其稳定的进程 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 航向稳定。特定的文化因素和家庭互动方式将 被评估以审查家庭关系的文化基础，特别是 亲社会的家庭功能。确定亲社会家庭的角色 患者临床病程中的因素对家庭有重要影响 精神分裂症的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.