Designing Culturally and Socially Valid Interventions

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的指导职业奖的首要目标是为申请者提供必要的技能，以启动一项独立的研究计划，重点是为受身体虐待影响的亚裔美国家庭发展文化和社会有效的干预措施。申请者完全有资格获得这一奖项，因为她在两个研究领域接受了强有力的培训：(1)少数民族心理健康护理；(2)与虐待儿童有关的心理健康需求。然而，为了实现她的职业目标，她需要在以下方面提供额外的指导和指导：(1)干预设计、实施和评估；(2)将基本行为科学的研究结果转化为干预开发；(3)家庭、社区和机构对干预研究和传播的参与；(4)适合评估研究的高级数据分析；以及(5)对少数民族儿童进行心理健康研究的伦理。这项培训计划将使申请者能够建立一种方法，以制定、实施、传播和评估针对虐待父母的文化相关干预措施，从而减少少数族裔家庭中的儿童心理健康问题。研究计划分为三个阶段。第一阶段是一项观察性研究，将确定亚裔美国家庭中身体虐待的文化显着相关性。在第二阶段，针对身体虐待的现有循证父母培训干预措施将扩大，包括新设计的治疗部分，以解决第一阶段确定的虐待行为的文化显著风险因素。第三阶段将涉及对拟议干预措施进行有限测试，以初步评估其疗效。这项研究的成果将是一项针对亚裔美国人家庭中身体虐待的经验性、文化响应性干预措施，准备在未来的研究中实施和评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of the proposed mentored career award is to provide the applicant with the necessary skills to launch an independent research program focusing on the development of culturally and socially valid interventions for Asian American families affected by physical abuse. The applicant is well qualified for this award based on her strong training in two lines of research: mental health care for ethnic minorities and (2) mental health needs associated with child maltreatment. However, to meet her career objective she requires additional instruction and mentorship in: (1) intervention design, implementation, and evaluation; (2) translation of findings from the basic behavioral sciences to intervention development; (3) family, community and institutional engagement in intervention research and dissemination; (4) advanced data analysis appropriate for evaluation research; and (5) ethics in the conduct of mental health research with ethnic minority children. This training plan will enable the applicant to establish a methodology for producing, implementing, disseminating and evaluating culturally relevant interventions to target abusive parenting, thereby reducing child mental health problems in ethnic minority families. The research plan is divided into three phases. Phase 1 is an observational study that will identify culturally salient correlates of physical abuse in Asian-American families. In Phase 2, an existing evidence based parent training intervention for physical abuse will be augmented to include newly designed treatment components to address the culturally salient risk factors for abuse identified in Phase 1. Phase 3 will involve a limited test of the proposed intervention to provide an initial estimate of its efficacy. The product of this research will be an empirically derived, culturally responsive intervention for physical abuse in Asian American families ready for implementation and evaluation in a future study.