EARLY CHILDHOOD AGGRESSION AND INFANT-PARENT ATTUNEMENT

描述：本赠款提案的总体目标是加强 申请人在婴儿领域以患者为导向的临床研究方面的技能 精神病学（早期儿童社会情绪和行为问题， 婴儿-父母关系的问题）。候选人广泛的职业目标 （1）开展符合伦理、负责任、高质量的临床研究， 婴儿精神病学领域; 2）整合多学科婴儿研究 精神病学领域的研究和临床活动， 设置; 3）参与教育的学员在该地区的婴儿 research.在奖励期结束时，候选人期望：1）拥有 成为临床婴儿独立研究者所需的能力 研究; 2）成为婴儿精神病学领域的领导者; 3） 作为独立调查员获得资助。为了实现这些目标， 候选人建议完成一个全面的计划，包括教学 课程和研究项目的指导工作。的说教部分， 建议包括参加研讨会，讲习班，辅导， 行为研究，生物统计学， 流行病学，负责任的研究行为，儿童发展，以及 心理生理学该提案的研究重点是儿童早期 攻击性和婴儿-父母行为和生理协调。的 本研究的目的是：1）考察个人对社会发展的贡献， 母婴因素及母婴相关因素 与婴儿攻击性和心率反应性的关系 12个月和24个月; 2）检查婴儿的连续性和变化 从12岁到24岁， 月龄。这一多学科项目涉及贫穷的少数民族， 青少年家庭，将完成与指导和监督的 在儿童攻击，婴儿研究，和 心理生理学斯坦福大学精神病学系和 行为科学，候选人导师的实验室，斯坦福大学 GCRC和玛丽约翰逊婴儿发展中心将提供学术 完成拟议培训和研究的环境和资源 计划

DESCRIPTION: The overall aim of this grant proposal is to enhance the applicant's skills in patient-oriented clinical research in the area of infant psychiatry (early childhood socio-emotional and behavioral problems and problems of infant- parent relationships). The candidate's broad career goals are: 1) to conduct ethical, responsible, high-quality clinical research in the area of infant psychiatry; 2) to integrate multidisciplinary infant research into research and clinical activities in the field of psychiatry in an academic setting; 3) to participate in education of trainees in the area of infant research. At the end of the award period, the candidate expects: 1) to possess the capacities necessary to be an independent investigator in clinical infant research; 2) to become a leader in the field of infant psychiatry; 3) to receive funding as an independent investigator. To achieve these goals, the candidate proposes to complete a comprehensive program that includes didactic courses and mentored work on a research project. The didactic part of the proposal includes participation in seminars, workshops, tutorials, and postdoctoral and graduate courses on behavioral research, biostatistics, epidemiology, responsible conduct of research, child development, and psychophysiology. The research focus of the proposal is early childhood aggression and infant-parent behavioral and physiologic attunement. The objectives of the study are: 1) to examine the contribution of individual maternal and infant factors and factors related to the infant-mother relationship to infant aggression and heart rate reactivity to stress at the age of 12 and 24 months; 2) to examine continuity and change in infant aggression and heart rate reactivity to stress over a period from 12 to 24 months of age. This multidisciplinary project, which involves poor minority adolescent families, will be accomplished with guidance and supervision of the leading specialists in childhood aggression, infant research, and psychophysiology. Stanford University, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, the laboratory of the candidate's mentor, the Stanford GCRC, and the Mary Johnson Infant Development Center will provide academic envirorunent and resources to accomplish the proposed training and research plan.