CORE--QUALITY OF LIFE

行为过程研究实验室致力于 阐明身心健康问题与 日常行为和情绪功能。本组织以往的活动 实验室对以下方面作出了重要实质性和方法性贡献， 对老年人心理健康的研究目前拟议的活动 将继续并扩大这些活动， 《儿童权利公约》关于治疗和预防艾滋病毒/艾滋病的干预措施的功效和有效性 老年人精神障碍与共病健康问题。 行为过程实验室的具体目标是：（1）描述 抑郁症和其他精神疾病的有效和行为伴随物 患有合并症的老年人的疾病，包括 痴呆;（2）确定情感和行为的预测因素， 发展，过程和反应，包括痴呆症;（2）识别 情感和行为的发展，过程中的预测， 对晚年精神障碍治疗的反应性;（3）发展 并验证创新的行为方法， 晚年精神障碍，（4）开发和验证创新 的功效和效果的评价方法和措施， 这样的干预。行为过程实验室将实现这些目标 主要目的是通过一系列重点研究项目， 心理、行为和人际关系过程， 晚年的身心健康。这些研究集中在不同的 人口，措施和方法，但都涉及个人内部和 人际关系的过程，导致抑郁症或由抑郁症引起 身体虚弱的老年人。为此提出的具体项目 （1）制定和实施一项 协助长者适应长期住宿照顾;（2） 关于在儿童和青少年时期的日常社会支持和生活质量的试点研究 乳腺癌化疗后;（3）发展和 实施用于进行心理治疗的治疗方案， 老年痴呆抑郁症患者的应对方式和 适应终末期肾病，和（5）相关研究 两个慢性病患者群体之间的日常互动 及其家庭照顾者：所有年龄的艾滋病患者， 认知功能完好的慢性病老年人。

The Laboratory for the Study of Behavioral Processes is dedicated to elucidating the associations of physical and mental health problems with everyday behavioral and emotional functioning. Previous activities of this lab have made important substantive and methodological contributions to the study of mental health in older people. Currently proposed activities will continue and extend those activities in keeping with the focus of the CRC on efficacy and effectiveness of interventions to treat and prevent mental disorders among older persons with co-morbid health problems. Specific aims of the Behavioral Processes Lab are: (1) to characterize the effective and behavioral concomitants of depression and other mental disorders among older persons with co-morbid medical illness, including dementia; (2) to identify affective and behavioral predictors of the development, course, and responsivity including dementia; (2) to identify affective and behavioral predictors of the development, course, and responsivity to treatment of late life mental disorders; (3) to develop and validate innovate behavioral methods for prevention and treatment of late life mental disorders, and (4) to develop and validate innovate methods and measures for evaluating the efficacy and the effectiveness of such interventions. The Behavioral Processes Laboratory will achieve these aims primarily through a series of focused research projects examining psychological, behavioral, and interpersonal processes associated with physical and mental health in late life. These studies focus on diverse populations, measures, and methods, but all deal with intrapersonal and interpersonal processes, leading to, or resulting from depressive illness among physically frail older persons. Specific projects proposed for this funding period include: (1) development and implementation of an intervention to facilitate adaptation to long-term residential care; (2) pilot research on everyday social support and quality of life during and following chemotherapy for breast cancer; (3) development and implementation of a treatment protocol for conducting psychotherapy with depressed older persons with dementia; (4) examination of coping and adaptation in end-stage renal disease, and (5) interrelated studies of daily interactions between two populations of chronically ill individuals and their family caregivers: Persons with AIDS of all ages, and cognitively intact, chronically ill older persons.