MENTAL HEALTH MENTORSHIP AND EDUCATION PROGRAM

我们建议在新墨西哥州大学（UNM）发起一个心理健康服务研究的导师和教育计划（MEP）。 该教学机构将重点关注初级保健环境中的少数民族心理健康问题，提供为期一周的强化培训课程，向少数民族初级教师和研究生介绍心理健康服务研究。 教育部还将加强与优秀心理健康研究人员的持续导师关系，这些研究人员既可以作为学员研究的顾问，也可以作为他们职业发展的榜样。该项目的总体目标是：（1）向受训者传授该领域的基本研究方法，重点是如何撰写提案和管理资助提案;（2）向受训者介绍精神卫生服务研究的最新重要成果，特别强调与西南部少数民族人口有关的研究;（3）在受训者和研究导师之间建立网络; 4）帮助受训者进行“职业发展”的各个方面; 5）编制面向少数群体的心理健康服务研究课程，可推广到其他教育机构; 6）每年开办一系列心理健康服务研究培训班。MEP的目标参与者将包括已经参加NIMH资助的少数民族研究基础设施支持计划（M-RISP）的少数民族初级教师，UNM的其他少数民族教师，他们希望与M-RISP合作，以及来自西南地区其他机构的少数民族学员。 每个参加培训的学员将被分配给联合国墨西哥大学的一名导师和/或一名外部导师，在为期一周的监测和评价方案课程期间和下一年与他们一起工作。外部教师，谁将包括优秀的少数民族心理健康服务研究人员能够作为榜样，将教在MEP年会两到三天，然后将作为持续的导师在接下来的一年，大约每隔一周通过电话一个小时，并通过面对面会议每三到四个月。 驻在联合国特派团的教员将每周或每两周与当地受训人员举行一次会议。我们预计，环保部将开发一个重点为心理健康服务研究在新墨西哥州和西南地区，并将成为一个全国公认的模式，培训少数民族教师在心理健康研究的接口与初级保健。

We propose to initiate a Mentorship and Educational Program (MEP) in Mental Health Services Research at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Focusing on minority mental health issues in primary care settings, this teaching institute will provide an intensive, one-week training session, which will introduce mental health services research to minority junior faculty members and graduate students. The MEP also will enhance ongoing mentorship relationships with outstanding mental health researchers who can serve as both advisers for the trainees' research and as role models in their career development. The overall aims of the MEP are to: 1) teach trainees basic research methods in this field, with an emphasis on how to write proposals and manage funded proposals; 2) introduce trainees to important recent findings of mental health services research, with special emphasis on research pertinent to minority populations of the Southwest; 3) establish networks among trainees and research mentors; 4) help trainees with various aspects of "career development"; 5) produce a minority-oriented mental health services research curriculum that is exportable to other educational institutions; and 6) initiate an ongoing sequence of training sessions in mental health services research on an annual basis. Targeted participants for the MEP will include the minority junior faculty members already participating in the NIMH-funded Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program (M-RISP) at UNM, other minority faculty members at UNM who would like to affiliate with the M-RISP, and minority trainees from other institutions in the Southwest region. Each participating trainee will be assigned to a mentor at UNM and/or an external mentor with whom to work during the one-week MEP session and during the following year. External faculty members, who will include outstanding minority mental health services researchers able to serve as role models, will teach at the MEP annual session for two to three days and then will act as ongoing mentors during the following year, roughly one hour every other week by phone and via face to face meetings every three to four months. UNM-based faculty will meet with local trainees on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. We expect that the MEP will develop a focus for mental health services research in New Mexico and the Southwest region and will emerge as a nationally recognized model for training of minority faculty members in mental health research at the interface with primary care.