Research Training in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份机构国家研究服务奖的申请，用于支持医科学生的短期研究培训，并在纽约大学儿童研究中心建立两到三年的儿童心理健康研究博士后培训。纽约大学儿童研究中心是纽约大学医学院精神病学系的一个部门，成立的目的是促进儿童心理健康研究，向临床医生传播研究成果，并在各专业领域提供高质量的培训。可利用的资源包括药理学和社会心理干预试验、神经影像学、纵向研究和儿童/青少年精神病理学评估方面的教师专业知识。这些模式目前被应用于外部支持的研究项目，包括焦虑和情绪障碍、破坏性行为障碍、妥瑞氏症、创伤后应激障碍、以家庭为基础的行为问题预防、对重病患者和寄养儿童的服务利用以及社区外展服务。研究人员将选择研究方式和内容领域的导师，并以成为独立研究者为目标，追求先进研究技能的发展。受训者的研究可以利用贝尔维尤医院中心和其他临床环境中高度多样化的患者群体。我们最初每年将招收两名学员，一名是心理学博士，另一名是完成了儿童和青少年精神病学住院医师培训的医生。在第三至第五年，我们每年将招募两名心理学家和两名儿童和青少年精神病学家。该计划的总体目标是培养精神病学和临床心理学的临床科学家，对儿童心理健康问题进行实证研究，并将这些受训者推向富有成效的学术研究事业。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for an Institutional National Research Service Award to support Short-Term Research Training for medical students and to establish a two- to three-year postdoctoral traineeship in children's mental health research at the New York University Child Study Center. The NYU Child Study Center is a division within the Department of Psychiatry of the NYU School of Medicine that was established to facilitate children's mental health research, to disseminate research findings to clinicians, and to provide high-quality training across the professional spectrum. Available resources include faculty expertise in pharmacological and psychosocial intervention trials, neuroimaging, longitudinal studies, and assessment of child/adolescent psychopathology. These modalities are currently being applied to externally-supported research programs in anxiety and mood disorders, disruptive behavior disorders, Tourette's disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, family-based prevention of conduct problems, service utilization for the severely ill and for children in foster care, and community outreach services. Research fellows will select mentors in a research modality as well as in content areas, and pursue their development of advanced research skills with the goal of becoming independent investigators. Trainees' research can take advantage of access to highly diverse patient populations at Bellevue Hospital Center and other clinical settings. We will initially recruit two trainees per year, one a Ph.D. psychologist and one a physician who completed residency training in child and adolescent psychiatry. In the third through fifth years, we will recruit two psychologists and two child and adolescent psychiatrists per year. The overall goals of the program are to train clinical scientists in psychiatry and clinical psychology to conduct empirical research on child mental health problems, and to advance these trainees to productive academic research careers.