MULTIPLE FAMILY GROUPS FOR LATINOS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA

该指导临床科学家发展奖的目的是 申请是为研究者发展学术生涯， 以少数民族研究为重点的民族学领域 加州大学洛杉矶分校严重精神疾病干预研究中心 （IRC）. 该计划的主要重点将是促进 促进功能恢复的文化因素调查 在患有精神分裂症的拉丁美洲人中， 旨在改善病程和结局的心理社会干预 精神紊乱的症状 科佩洛维奇博士，一位双语精神病学家， 在阿根廷，曾在临床上工作，并与拉丁美洲人进行研究， 患有精神分裂症的病人 加州大学洛杉矶分校有35年的 传统的心理健康研究与拉丁美洲人，谁代表了一个 服务不足但迅速增长的族裔群体， 占洛杉矶人口的一半。 科佩洛维奇博士的知识和技能， 加州大学洛杉矶分校教育部的学术资源和专业知识 精神病学，以及这个主要城市地区大量的拉丁美洲人 联合收割机使洛杉矶成为一个理想的设置， 项目 本申请中描述的开发计划概述了教程， 研讨会、与著名学者的磋商和可行性研究 这将使科佩洛维奇博士成为一个学术资源， 独立临床研究者。 这个奖项将使科佩洛维奇博士 从他目前的大部分临床和行政职责和许可 他：a）确定抑制心理健康持续性的因素 照顾拉丁美洲人：B）发展技能的评估和治疗 拉丁裔家庭，c）进行一项研究项目，研究 一个专门为家庭设计的心理教育计划， 患有严重精神疾病的拉丁美洲人：和d）制定必要的 设计、计划和实施大规模干预措施的技能 研究项目。 由于这些努力，假设与更广泛的 心理健康研究的意义- -关于 家庭干预方式与患者及家属的关系 保护因素，精神病症状的表现，以及整体 将制定和测试这些指标。 的结果 这些研究将被用于形成独立的基础（R 01） 应用. 通过这次培训，Kopelowicz博士将在 加州大学洛杉矶分校精神病学系作为治疗研究专家 有严重精神疾病的拉美人鉴于社会和 这些疾病的经济成本，他们在拉丁美洲的患病率 人口在加州，和多重障碍，以获得一个 有效干预（例如，语言、文化、金融）， Kopelowicz博士作为学术资源的发展， 加州大学洛杉矶分校IRC的干预研究计划将长期 a）提高拉丁美洲人的精神卫生保健质量， 洛杉矶地区; B）对初级教员的教育和指导 对精神分裂症的跨文化研究感兴趣; c） 为医科学生、精神科学生、 常驻研究员、博士后和国际访问学者， 加州大学洛杉矶分校医学院 学术和研究活动将采取 整个颁奖期间。

The objective of this Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award application is for the investigator to develop an academic career in the field of shizophrenia with an emphasis on ethnic minority research within the UCLA Intervention Research Center for Severe Mental Illnesses (IRC). The primary focus of this program will be to facilitate the investigations of the cultural factors that promote functional recovery in Latinos with schizophrenia and to incorporate these factors into psychosocial interventions designed to improve the course and outcome of the disorder. Dr. Kopelowicz, a bilingual psychiatrist who was born in Argentina, has worked clinically and conducted research with Latinos with schizophrenia for the past six years. UCLA has a thirty-five year tradition of mental health research with Latinos, who represent an underserved yet rapidly growing ethnic group comprising forty percent of the population of Los Angeles. Dr. Kopelowicz's knowledge nd skills, the academic resources and expertise of the UCLA Department of Psychiatry, and the large number of Latinos in this major urban area combine to make Los Angeles an ideal setting for this project. The development plan described in this application outlines tutorials, seminars, consultations with notable scholars, and feasibility studies that will establish Dr. Kopelowicz as an academic resource and independent clinical investigator. The award will free Dr. Kopelowicz from most of his present clinical and administrative duties and permit him to: a) identify the factors that inhibit continuity of mental health care for Latinos: b) develop skills in the assessment and treatment of Latino families, c) conduct a research project studying the effects of a psychoeducation program designed specifically for the families of Latinos with serious mental illness: and d) develop the requisite skills to design, plan, and implement a large scale, intervention research project. As a result of these efforts, hypotheses with broader significance for mental health research - - regarding the underlying relationships among family interactional style, patient and family protective factors, the manifestation of psychotic symptoms, and overall level of functioning -- will be formulated and tested. The results of these studies will be used to form the basis for independent (R01) applications. With this training Dr. Kopelowicz will assume an important role in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry as an expert regarding treatment research with Latinos with serious mental illnesses. Given the social and economic costs of these illnesses, their prevalence within Latino populations in California, and the multiple barriers to access an effective intervention (e.g., linguistic, cultural, financial), the development of Dr. Kopelowicz as an academic resource leading an intervention research program at the UCLA IRC will have long-term benefits for a) improving quality of mental health care for Latinos in the Los Angeles area; b) educating and mentoring of junior faculty interested in pursuing cross-cultural research in schizophrenia; and c) organizing courses and seminars for medical students, psychiatric residents, post-doctoral fellows and international visiting scholars at the UCLA School of Medicine. Academic and research activities will take place throughout the award period.