Development of a PhD Clinical Sciences Program in Vietnam

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的发展ICOHRTA （D43-TW05805）项目的竞争更新的最终目标是永久提高越南社会主义共和国（越南）在以下方面的研究能力：(a)为越南儿童心理健康问题开发适合文化的、基于研究的治疗方法；(b)计划、设计和实施干预试验，以经验性评估这些治疗方法，并解决次要问题（例如，确定治疗效果的介质）；(c)传播研究结果，以对服务提供产生有利影响。此外，通过项目教师和学员之间文化视角的协作分享，我们期望成功实现这些目标将拓宽我们领域对人类行为的理解。为此，我们的第一个具体目标是，在五年内：(a)在范德比尔特临床科学项目中为六名越南研究人员提供临床心理学培训（两名研究生博士研究生，四名两年博士后实习生）以及(b)通过在越南举行的为期两周的夏季密集研讨会为大约十名越南“项目研究员”提供培训（其中包括为他们的研究提供咨询）。为了确保增加的研究能力能够长期持续下去，我们的第二个具体目标是支持在河内的越南国立大学建立一个以儿童为中心、以研究为导向的临床心理学博士项目；在范德比尔特接受培训的个人将成为这个新项目的核心教员。我们的第三个具体目标是，通过ICOHRTA项目促进的合作，通过扩大其文化基础，为拓宽心理学作为一个领域做出贡献。与越南研究人员的合作关系是该项目的核心要素，将为美国研究人员提供长期的机会，分享和学习来自一个截然不同文化的研究人员对人类行为的看法。这将增加我们对文化作为心理构念之间关系调节者的重要性的欣赏和理解，丰富我们自己的研究以及我们越南同事的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ultimate goal of this competing renewal for our Developmental ICOHRTA (D43-TW05805) project is to permanently increase research capacity in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (Vietnam) in regards to: (a) developing culturally-appropriate, research-based treatments for Vietnamese children's mental health problems; (b) planning, designing, and conducting intervention trials to empirically evaluate these treatments, as well as to address secondary questions (e.g., determining mediators of treatment effects); and (c) disseminating the results of this research so as to favorably impact on service provision. In addition, it is expected that success in achieving these goals will broaden our field's understanding of human behavior, through the collaborative sharing of cultural perspectives among project faculty and trainees. Towards this end, our first Specific Aim is, over five years, to: (a) provide six Vietnamese researchers with training in clinical psychology at the Vanderbilt Clinical Sciences program (two as graduate Ph.D. students, four as two year post-doctoral trainees) as well as (b) provide training to approximately ten Vietnamese "Program Fellows" via two week summer intensive seminars in Vietnam (which will include providing consultation on their research). In order to ensure that increased research capacity is sustainable over the long-term, our second Specific Aim is to support the development of a child-focused, research-oriented Ph.D. clinical psychology program at the Vietnam National University in Hanoi; the individuals receiving training at Vanderbilt will serve as core faculty in this new program. Our third Specific Aim is, through the collaborations facilitated by this ICOHRTA project, to contribute to the broadening of psychology as a field, by expanding its cultural base. The collaborative relationships with the Vietnamese researchers that are a central element of the program will provide the U.S. researchers with long-term opportunities to share and learn the perspective on human behavior of researchers from a significantly different culture. This will increase our appreciation and understanding of the significance of culture as a moderator of relations among psychological constructs, enriching our own research as well as that of our Vietnamese colleagues.