Treatment and Psychopathology of BDD

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请为以病人为中心的研究(K-24)职业生涯中期研究人员奖，请求支持 候选人将加强对初学临床研究人员的指导并增强 她以病人为中心的研究。这项研究的重点是身体变形 障碍(BDD)，对想象中的或轻微的缺陷的关注 外观，这是一种令人痛苦、损害和相对常见的障碍。 BDD与高功能损伤率相关，精神疾病 住院和自杀未遂，以及明显的低生活质量。 尽管这种疾病已经被描述了一个多世纪，尽管 它的公共卫生意义，它得到的实证调查很少。 作为该领域为数不多的研究人员之一，这位候选人提议继续 并扩大她对这一未被充分研究和严重的精神疾病的患者导向的研究 无序。这项提议的主要目的是利用 以患者为中心的研究中的职业生涯中期研究人员奖 应聘者对与其未来研究相关的几个领域的知识 开发、评估和传播有关BDD治疗和治疗的新信息 精神变态学。为此，职业发展计划增加了 应聘者在以下方面的经验、知识和技能：1) 循证心理治疗--具体地说，认知-行为治疗；2) 统计学；3)干预研究设计和方法；4)发展 精神病理学和人类发展。职业发展计划也 建议1)通过以下方式提高对BDD和其他精神障碍的认识 教育专业人士和公众，以及2)扩大候选人的指导 开始调查的目标是吸引他们进入 以病人为中心的研究。这个应用程序的研究计划集中在两个方面 正在进行的BDD治疗和精神病理学的R01研究，其他正在进行的研究 研究和建议的干预研究(R-21和R-01应用) BDD。总而言之，这一奖项将为候选人的 职业发展，指导，持续的和新的以患者为导向的研究 精神错乱症一种未被充分研究、相对常见和严重的精神错乱。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application for a Mid-Career Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K-24) requests support for the candidate to increase mentoring of beginning clinical investigators and enhance her patient-oriented research. This research focuses on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a preoccupation with an imagined or slight defect in appearance, which is a distressing, impairing, and relatively common disorder. BDD is associated with high rates of functional impairment, psychiatric hospitalization, and suicide attempts, as well as notably poor quality of life. Although this disorder has been described for more than a century, and despite its public health significance, it has received little empirical investigation. As one of the few researchers in this area, the candidate proposes to continue and expand her patient-oriented research on this understudied and severe mental disorder. The chief aim of this proposal is to use time liberated by the Mid-Career Investigator Award in Patient Oriented Research to increase the candidate's knowledge of several areas relevant to her future research and to develop, evaluate and disseminate new information on BDD's treatment and psychopathology. To this end, the career development plan increases the candidate's experience, knowledge, and skills in the following areas: 1) evidence-based psychotherapy--specifically, cognitive-behavioral therapy; 2) statistics; 3) intervention study design and methodology; and 4) developmental psychopathology and human development. The career development plan also proposes to 1) increase awareness of BDD and other mental disorders by educating professionals and the public, and 2) expand the candidate's mentoring of beginning investigators with the goal of attracting them to a career in patient-oriented research. This application's research plan focuses on two ongoing R01 studies of BDD's treatment and psychopathology, other ongoing research, and proposed intervention research (R-21 and R-0l applications) on BDD. In summary, this award would provide critical support for the candidate's career development, mentoring, and ongoing and new patient-oriented research on an understudied, relatively common, and severe mental disorder.