Toward Developing Postdisaster Community Interventions

描述(申请人提供)：弥合经常被注意到的差距 灾难心理健康领域的研究与实践，候选人 寻求从从事相对基础的研究转向职业生涯 自然灾害对发展和发展的心理社会后果 评估积极促进儿童心理社会康复的干预措施 灾难的余波。佐治亚州立大学社区心理学教授 大学期间，候选人发表了68篇文章和章节，并被 自1986年以来，一直由国立卫生研究院的赠款资助。尽管她一直在学习 暴力和丧亲的影响以及创伤的流行病学 和创伤后应激障碍，她在过去15年的大部分工作都与灾难有关， 强调灾后恢复如何与动员和 社会资源的恶化。这些过程是如何被文化塑造的 性别在她的工作中变得越来越核心，她目前 年灾难恢复纵向研究的首席研究员 墨西哥。在这项研究中，从两个社区中随机抽取的样本 在1999年经历了大规模洪水和山体滑坡的人在 在治疗后6个月、12个月、18个月和24个月进行全面访谈 包括选定的CIDI模块(MDD、PTSD)以及 目前的症状和物质、社会和心理资源。规范 所有措施由应聘者S提供？年创伤流行病学研究 墨西哥。根据先前的理论和经验工作，候选人 提出制定符合以下条件的干预策略非常关键 以社区为中心，对文化敏感，提供资源，基于数据。 本次干预的目标是打造社区？S的能力。 知情的选择，同时承认选择仍然是社会的选择？S 属于自己的。为申请者提供所需的技能和观点 行动研究，培训计划结合了实际的实地经验， 医学人类学方面的高级培训，并指导对 社区组织和干预文献。初步安排 与(A)心理健康中心进行了现场体验 服务(SAMHSA)，负责向 灾害受害者，(B)人类学系和灾害中心 南佛罗里达大学管理和人道主义援助，(C) 和国家创伤后应激障碍中心(帕洛阿尔托灾难服务中心)。这项研究 计划整合候选人S关于资源动员和 恶化，她目前对创伤和灾难的流行病学研究 墨西哥的复苏，一项新提出的标准和创新做法调查 灾难心理健康和广泛的跨学科学术研究。 建议的产品包括对文献的综合审查和 初步的方案模型和研究设计。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): To bridge the often-noted gap between research and practice in the field of disaster mental health, the candidate seeks to make a career transition from conducting relatively basic research on the psychosocial consequences of natural disasters toward developing and evaluating interventions that actively promote psychosocial recovery in the wake of disasters. A professor of community psychology at Georgia State University, the candidate has published 68 articles and chapters and has been continuously funded by grants from NTMH since 1986. Although she has studied the effects of violence and bereavement, as well as the epidemiology of trauma and PTSD, most of her work over the past 15 years has concerned disasters, with an emphasis on how postdisaster recovery is linked to the mobilization and deterioration of social resources. How these processes are shaped by culture and gender has become increasingly central in her work, and she is presently the principal investigator of a longitudinal study of disaster recovery in Mexico. In this study, samples selected randomly from two communities that experienced massive flooding and landslides in 1999 are being interviewed at points 6, 12, 18, and 24 months postevent using a comprehensive interview that includes selected CIDI modules (MDD, PTSD) as well as multiple measures of current symptoms and material, social, and psychological resources. Norms for all measures are provided by the candidate?s epidemiologic study of trauma in Mexico. On the basis of prior theoretical and empirical work, the candidate proposes that it is critical to develop intervention strategies that are community centered, culturally sensitive, resource providing, and data based. The intervention objective is to build the community?s capacity to make informed choices, while recognizing that the choices remain the community?s own. To provide the applicant with the skills and perspectives required for action research, the training plan incorporates practical field experiences, advanced training in medical anthropology, and directed reviews of the community organization and intervention literatures. Preliminary arrangements have been made for on-site experiences with (a) the Center for Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), the federal agency charged with providing services to disaster victims, (b) The Anthropology Department and Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance at the University of South Florida, (c) and the National Center for PTSD (Disaster Services, Palo Alto). The research plan integrates the candidate?s theoretical work on resource mobilization and deterioration, her current epidemiologic studies of trauma and disaster recovery in Mexico, a newly proposed survey of standard and innovative practice in disaster mental health, and extensive interdisciplinary scholarship. Proposed products include integrative reviews of the literature and a preliminary program model and research design.