Research Training in Drug Abuse Behavior

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项由Thomas Garrity和Carl Leukefeld共同指导的培训计划建议支持三名博士后和三名博士后实习生，培训教师21人，来自该大学七个不同的学术和研究单位。在药物和酒精研究中心、预防研究中心和住宅研究设施等设施中，环境中充满了生物行为研究的机会。受训者将被安置在行为科学系和药物和酒精研究中心的办公室，24小时/天都可以进入实验室和计算机设施；一些受训者将在其教员主管的项目区域有额外的工作空间。该计划旨在培养学员在学术和其他科学组织中承担研究责任，这些组织涉及药物滥用以及健康和医疗保健的行为方面。博士后研究员将拥有行为科学学科的博士学位，并将为药物滥用领域的研究角色做准备，或者他们将是寻求药物滥用行为科学研究方向的健康专业人员。博士前实习生将专注于药物滥用的行为科学方面，作为他们生物行为科学学科博士学位的一部分。该计划的基本要素包括：(I)研究培训，旨在提供利用研究实验室方法、案例研究、实验设计、开发和仪器的预测试、数据分析和独立研究能力的基本构件的经验；(2)多学科方向，使学生超越其基本学科，并接触到相关生物行为科学的关键理论概念和方法论问题，希望实现生物行为概念化；(3)培养和指导药物滥用、健康和心理健康环境的计划；(4)通过培训教师提供的课程，从医学行为角度探索药物滥用主题；以及(5)围绕药物滥用行为中的相关问题进行独立研究的机会，这些问题可以构成博士后研究员的重要学习经验，并为博士后实习生提供学位论文项目。针对博士后研究员的计划将针对研究员的目标进行个别调整，并将建立在他们以前的知识和经验的基础上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program co-directed by Thomas Garrity and Carl Leukefeld proposes to support three pre- and three postdoctoral trainees with a training faculty of 21 drawn from seven different academic and research units of the University. The environment is rich with opportunities for biobehavioral research in facilities such as the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, the Center for Prevention Research, and the Residential Research Facility. Trainees will be housed in offices of the Department of Behavioral Science and the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research with 24-hour/day access to laboratories and computer facilities; some trainees will have additional work space in the project areas of their faculty supervisors. This program is designed to prepare trainees to assume research responsibilities in academic, and other scientific organizations concerned with drug abuse and the behavioral aspects of health and medical care. Postdoctoral fellows will either have a doctorate in a behavioral science discipline and will be preparing for a research role in the drug abuse field, or they will be health professionals who are seeking a behavioral science research orientation in drug abuse. Predoctoral trainees will concentrate in behavioral science aspects of drug abuse as part of their program for a doctorate in a biobehavioral science discipline. Basic elements of the program include (I) research training designed to provide experience in utilizing the basic building blocks of research laboratory methods, case study, experimental design, development and pretesting of instruments, data analysis) and independent research competence; (2) a multidisciplinary orientation which takes students beyond their basic discipline and provides exposure to key theoretical concepts and methodological issues of the related biobehavioral sciences along wish a biobehavioral conceptualization; (3) a program of enculturation and orientation to drug abuse, health and mental health settings; (4) opportunities to explore drug abuse topics from a medical behavioral perspective through courses offered by training faculty; and (5) opportunities for independent research around relevant questions in drug abuse behavior that can constitute significant learning experiences for postdoctoral fellows and a dissertation project for predoctoral trainees. The program for postdoctoral fellows will be individually geared to the Objectives of the fellows and will build on their previous knowledge and experience.