CENTER FOR HISPANIC MENTAL HEALTH STUDIES

福德姆大学提议建立一个西班牙裔心理健康研究中心，该中心将：（1）对西班牙裔人口的心理健康服务需求进行研究，并为西班牙裔制定和评估心理社会干预措施;（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。 对西班牙裔的关注是基于他们记录在案的心理健康需求。 基础设施的发展将在福德姆的主任和高级共同研究人员的领导下进行，并与纽约州立精神病研究所（NYSPI）的研究人员合作，他们将包括GSSS的教师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提供教师和学生在研究的各个方面的“动手”经验。 一项试点研究比较了亲属和非亲属寄养的西班牙裔儿童的心理健康结果，另一项试点研究探讨了老年西班牙裔人的症状识别和心理健康服务利用率。 一个资助的REP测试在怀孕期间对妇女的心理社会干预，和一个拟议的REP检查语言和种族匹配的影响，在诊断采访西班牙裔。(2)导师实施个性化的教师研究发展计划将满足教师追求心理健康研究的实质性和方法的需求。 指导将导致概念论文和研究建议由教师提交通过大学教师奖，中心“种子赠款”和外部来源的资金。(3)NYSPI合作者将领导关于精神病学流行病学、服务和干预研究的互动式、解决问题的研讨会。 他们将回应研究团队和个别教师的概念，方法和后勤问题。(4)由领先的心理健康研究人员和新的调查人员的研究座谈会将巩固该中心在GSSS的存在，并将其与心理健康研究人员的社区联系起来。

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.