CENTER FOR HISPANIC MENTAL HEALTH STUDIES

福特汉姆大学建议建立一个拉美裔心理健康研究中心，该中心将：(1)研究拉美裔人群的心理健康服务需求，并开发和评估针对拉美裔的心理社会干预措施；以及(2)加强GSSS在心理健康研究方面的机构研究能力和教师技能。对拉美裔美国人的关注是基于他们有记录的心理健康需求。基础设施开发将在来自福特汉姆的一名董事和高级联合调查人员的领导下进行，并与纽约州精神病研究所(NYSPI)的研究人员合作，这些研究人员将包括GSSS的教职员工和学生作为他们研究项目的合作者。该中心将通过四个综合学习部分实现其目标。(1)在GSSS进行试点研究和代表并在NYSPI参与研究的研究团队将为教职员工和学生提供所有方面的研究实践经验。一项试点研究比较了亲属寄养和非亲属寄养的拉美裔儿童的心理健康结果，另一项试点研究调查了拉美裔老年人的症状识别和心理健康服务利用情况。一名资助的代表测试怀孕期间对女性的心理社会干预，一名建议的代表在与拉美裔美国人的诊断性访谈中检查语言和种族匹配的影响。(2)指导实施个性化的教师研究发展计划将满足从事心理健康研究的教师的实质性和方法性需求。导师将通过大学教师奖、中心“种子基金”和外部来源提交概念论文和教职员工的研究提案，以获得资金。(3)关于精神病学流行病学、服务和干预研究的互动、解决问题的研讨会将由NYSPI的合作者领导。他们将对研究团队和个别教员在概念、方法和后勤方面的关切做出回应。(4)由领先的精神健康研究人员和新的研究人员举办的研究座谈会将巩固该中心在GSSS的存在，并将其与精神健康研究人员社区联系起来。

Fordham University proposes to establish a Center for Hispanic Mental Health Studies which will: (1) conduct research on mental health service needs of Hispanic populations, and develop and evaluate psychosocial interventions for Hispanics; and (2) strengthen GSSS' institutional research capacity and faculty skills in mental health research. The focus on Hispanics is based on their documented mental health needs. Infrastructure development will occur under the leadership of a director and senior co-investigators from Fordham with the collaboration of New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) researchers who will include GSSS faculty and students as collaborators in their research projects. The Center will pursue its aims through four integrative learning components. (1) Research teams conducting pilot studies and REPs at GSSS and participating in research at NYSPI will provide faculty and students "hands-on" experience in all aspects of research. One pilot study compares mental health outcomes for Hispanic children in kin and non-kin foster care and another pilot study examines symptom recognition and mental health services utilization by elderly Hispanics. A funded REP tests a psychosocial intervention for women during pregnancy, and a proposed REP examines the effects of language and ethnic matching in diagnostic interviews with Hispanics. (2) Mentorship to implement individualized Faculty Research Development Plans will meet substantive and methodological needs of faculty pursuing mental health research. Mentoring will result in concept papers and research proposals by faculty to be submitted for funding through University faculty awards, Center "seed grants," and external sources. (3) Interactive, problem-solving seminars on psychiatric epidemiology, services, arid intervention research will be led by NYSPI collaborators. They will respond to conceptual, methodological and logistical concerns of research teams and individual faculty. (4) Research colloquia by leading mental health researchers and new investigators will solidify the Center's presence at GSSS and link it to the community of mental health researchers.