Schools as Context for Mental Health: Interdisciplinary

描述(由申请者提供)：这项网络资助的目标是发展对学校心理健康能力的跨学科理解。该网络将通过了解影响学校功能的社区和经济资源以及学校功能对促进儿童心理健康的影响，将学校作为发展儿童心理健康的社会背景。通过阅读和集中讨论，一组精选的跨学科学者将从教育学和学校改革、组织理论、计量经济学和财政政策的最新进展的角度来考察学校，以了解学校内在的因素和外部的社区特征，这些因素影响学校培养儿童社会化和心理健康的能力。具体目标是开发合作研究计划，以在具体的研究资助(R01)建议之外，产生发展网络资助(R24)，目的是确定：1)可以改变对儿童心理健康需求的理解和解决方式的教育改革原则；2)影响有效的学校实践、员工福祉和儿童心理健康的组织因素；以及3)影响学校心理健康能力的财政政策模式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this network grant is to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of the mental health capacity of schools. The network will focus on schools as a social context for the development of children's mental health by understanding the community and economic resources that influence school functioning and the implications of school functioning for promoting the mental health of children. Through readings and focused discussions, a select group of interdisciplinary scholars will examine schools from the perspective of recent advances in pedagogy and school reform, organizational theory, and econometrics and fiscal policy to understand the factors intrinsic to schools, and extrinsic community characteristics, that influence schools' capacity to foster children's socialization and mental health. The specific aims are to develop collaborative research programs that would lead to a Developmental Network Grant (R24) in addition to specific research grant (R01) proposals with the goal to identify: 1) principles of educational reform that can change the way mental health needs of children are understood and addressed; 2) organizational factors that impact effective school practice, staff well-being, and children's mental health; and 3) models for fiscal policy that influence the mental health capacity of schools.