MULTIPLE FAMILY GROUPS FOR LATINOS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA

指导临床科学家发展奖的目标 申请是为了让调查员在 以少数民族研究为重点的精神分裂症领域 加州大学洛杉矶分校严重精神疾病干预研究中心 (IRC)。该计划的主要重点将是促进 促进功能恢复的文化因素调查 在患有精神分裂症的拉丁裔人中，并将这些因素纳入 旨在改善病程和结局的心理社会干预 失调症的症状。Kopelowicz博士，一位出生于 在阿根廷，曾与拉丁裔进行临床研究和研究 在过去的六年里患有精神分裂症。加州大学洛杉矶分校有35年的 与拉丁裔进行心理健康研究的传统，他们代表着 服务不足但快速增长的种族群体，占40% 占洛杉矶总人口的比例。科佩洛维奇博士的知识和技能， 加州大学洛杉矶分校系的学术资源和专业知识 精神病学，以及这个主要城市地区的大量拉丁裔 结合在一起，洛杉矶将成为举办这一活动的理想环境 项目。 本申请中描述的开发计划概述了教程、 研讨会、与著名学者的磋商和可行性研究 这将使Kopelowicz博士成为学术资源，并 独立的临床调查员。该奖项将释放Kopelowicz博士 从他目前的大部分临床和行政职责和许可 他要：a)找出阻碍心理健康持续性的因素 关爱拉美裔人：b)培养评估和治疗 拉丁裔家庭，c)开展一项研究项目，研究 专门为家庭设计的心理教育计划 患有严重精神疾病的拉丁裔人：和d)发展必要的 设计、规划和实施大规模干预的技能 研究项目。作为这些努力的结果，假设具有更广泛的 心理健康研究的意义--关于潜在的 家庭交往方式、患者与家庭的关系 保护因素，精神病症状的表现，以及总体 功能水平--将被制定和测试。结果是 这些研究将被用来形成独立(R01)的基础 申请。 通过这次培训，Kopelowicz博士将在 加州大学洛杉矶分校精神病学系作为治疗研究的专家 有严重精神疾病的拉美裔美国人。考虑到社交和 这些疾病的经济成本及其在拉丁裔中的流行 加利福尼亚州的人口，以及访问 有效干预(例如，语言、文化、金融)， Kopelowicz博士作为学术资源的发展 加州大学洛杉矶分校IRC的干预研究计划将长期 A)改善#年拉美裔人的精神卫生保健质量 洛杉矶地区；b)初级教员的教育和指导 有兴趣从事精神分裂症的跨文化研究；以及c) 为医学生组织课程和研讨会，精神病学 住院医生、博士后研究员和国际访问学者 加州大学洛杉矶分校医学院。学术和研究活动将需要 在整个获奖期内排名第一。

The objective of this Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award application is for the investigator to develop an academic career in the field of shizophrenia with an emphasis on ethnic minority research within the UCLA Intervention Research Center for Severe Mental Illnesses (IRC). The primary focus of this program will be to facilitate the investigations of the cultural factors that promote functional recovery in Latinos with schizophrenia and to incorporate these factors into psychosocial interventions designed to improve the course and outcome of the disorder. Dr. Kopelowicz, a bilingual psychiatrist who was born in Argentina, has worked clinically and conducted research with Latinos with schizophrenia for the past six years. UCLA has a thirty-five year tradition of mental health research with Latinos, who represent an underserved yet rapidly growing ethnic group comprising forty percent of the population of Los Angeles. Dr. Kopelowicz's knowledge nd skills, the academic resources and expertise of the UCLA Department of Psychiatry, and the large number of Latinos in this major urban area combine to make Los Angeles an ideal setting for this project. The development plan described in this application outlines tutorials, seminars, consultations with notable scholars, and feasibility studies that will establish Dr. Kopelowicz as an academic resource and independent clinical investigator. The award will free Dr. Kopelowicz from most of his present clinical and administrative duties and permit him to: a) identify the factors that inhibit continuity of mental health care for Latinos: b) develop skills in the assessment and treatment of Latino families, c) conduct a research project studying the effects of a psychoeducation program designed specifically for the families of Latinos with serious mental illness: and d) develop the requisite skills to design, plan, and implement a large scale, intervention research project. As a result of these efforts, hypotheses with broader significance for mental health research - - regarding the underlying relationships among family interactional style, patient and family protective factors, the manifestation of psychotic symptoms, and overall level of functioning -- will be formulated and tested. The results of these studies will be used to form the basis for independent (R01) applications. With this training Dr. Kopelowicz will assume an important role in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry as an expert regarding treatment research with Latinos with serious mental illnesses. Given the social and economic costs of these illnesses, their prevalence within Latino populations in California, and the multiple barriers to access an effective intervention (e.g., linguistic, cultural, financial), the development of Dr. Kopelowicz as an academic resource leading an intervention research program at the UCLA IRC will have long-term benefits for a) improving quality of mental health care for Latinos in the Los Angeles area; b) educating and mentoring of junior faculty interested in pursuing cross-cultural research in schizophrenia; and c) organizing courses and seminars for medical students, psychiatric residents, post-doctoral fellows and international visiting scholars at the UCLA School of Medicine. Academic and research activities will take place throughout the award period.