New Mexico Mental Health Mentorship/Education Program

描述（由申请人提供）：新墨西哥州导师和教育计划（MEP）的重点是少数民族的心理健康问题，在初级保健环境，特别是在心理健康结果的差异。一个为期一周的强化年度培训机构向西南地区机构的少数民族初级教师和研究生介绍心理健康服务研究。MEP还加强了与优秀心理健康研究人员的持续导师关系。NIMH国家心理健康咨询理事会已将MEP指定为高度优先项目。通过这种竞争性的延续申请，我们将通过两种重要方式来扩大成功的计划：a）通过招募社区卫生中心的少数族裔初级保健从业者（PCP），环境保护部将解决“转化”研究的重要性，以弥合国家公认的研究与现实生活实践环境之间的差距，B）一个新的组成部分将导致征聘少数群体研究人员和导师，他们的重点是少数群体人口中的老年心理健康服务。 具体目标如下：1）针对少数民族青年教师、研究生、从业人员在获得研究支持的竞争力方面存在的困难，将以如何撰写提案、如何管理提案为重点，教授该领域的基本研究方法。2)为了加强研究转化为真实的生活实践环境，我们将介绍基于大学和社区的学员，以心理健康服务研究的重要最新发现，特别强调有关心理健康结果的差异影响西南少数民族人口的研究。3)由于年轻的少数民族研究人员所经历的孤立和边缘化，我们将在这些学员和全国著名的研究导师之间建立网络。4)认识到少数民族研究生，教师和从业人员在获得和保留促进研究活动的工作岗位方面面临的挑战，我们将帮助学员进行“职业发展”的各个方面。“5）由于在少数民族初级研究人员生活和工作的许多地方组织培训计划的困难，我们将制作一个面向少数民族的心理健康服务研究课程，可出口到其他教育机构和初级保健实践场所。6)为了促进培训和指导的连续性，因为初级研究人员试图在他们的职业生涯中前进，我们将启动一个正在进行的序列的培训课程，在精神卫生服务的研究，每年的基础上。7)由于对少数民族老年人的心理健康问题进行的研究很少，我们将开始对心理健康服务研究的新重点，重点是西南地区的老年人和少数民族人口。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The New Mexico Mentorship and Education Program (MEP) focuses on minority mental health issues in primary care settings, especially disparities in mental health outcomes. An intensive, one-week annual training institute introduces mental health services research to minority junior faculty members and graduate students from Southwest institutions. The MEP also enhances ongoing mentorship relationships with outstanding mental health researchers. The NIMH National Advisory Mental Health Council has designated the MEP as a high program priority. By this competitive continuation application, we will strengthen the successful program by expanding it in two important ways: a) By recruiting minority primary care practitioners (PCPs) based at community health centers, the MEP will address the importance of "translational" research to bridge the nationally recognized gap between research and real-life practice settings, b) A new component will lead to recruitment of minority researchers and mentors who focus on geriatric mental health services in minority populations. The MEP's specific aims are as follows: 1) Due to the difficulties that minority junior faculty members, graduate students, and practitioners have experienced in obtaining suitable training that helps them compete for research support, we will teach trainees basic research methods in this field, with an emphasis on how to write proposals and manage funded proposals. 2) To enhance the translation of research into real life practice settings, we will introduce university-based and community-based trainees to important recent findings of mental health services research, with special emphasis on research concerning the disparities in mental health outcomes that affect minority populations of the Southwest. 3) Because of the isolation and marginalization experienced by young minority researchers, we will establish networks among these trainees and nationally prominent research mentors. 4) Recognizing the challenges that minority graduate students, faculty members, and practitioners face in obtaining and retaining work positions that foster research activities, we will help trainees with various aspects of "career development." 5) Due to the difficulties of organizing training programs in the many locations where junior minority researchers live and work, we will produce a minority-oriented mental health services research curriculum that is exportable to other educational institutions and primary care practice sites. 6) To facilitate continuity of training and mentoring as junior investigators try to advance in their careers, we will initiate an ongoing sequence of training sessions in mental health services research on an annual basis. 7) Because of the sparse research conducted about the mental health problems of minority elders, we will initiate a new emphasis on mental health services research focusing on the older, minority populations of the Southwest.