Designing Culturally and Socially Valid Interventions

描述（由申请人提供）：建议的指导职业奖的总体目标是为申请人提供必要的技能，以启动一个独立的研究项目，重点是为受身体虐待影响的亚裔美国家庭开发文化和社会有效的干预措施。申请人完全有资格获得这一奖项，因为她在两方面的研究训练有素：少数民族的精神卫生保健和(2)与儿童虐待有关的精神卫生需求。然而，为了实现她的职业目标，她需要在以下方面得到额外的指导和指导：(1)干预措施的设计、实施和评估；(2)将基础行为科学的研究成果转化为干预措施的开发；(3)家庭、社区和机构参与干预研究和传播；(4)适合评价研究的高级数据分析；(5)少数民族儿童心理健康研究中的伦理问题。这一培训计划将使申请人能够制定一种方法，制定、执行、传播和评估与文化有关的干预措施，以打击虐待父母，从而减少少数民族家庭中的儿童心理健康问题。研究计划分为三个阶段。第一阶段是一项观察性研究，将确定亚裔美国家庭中身体虐待的文化显著相关性。在第二阶段，现有的以证据为基础的父母身体虐待培训干预措施将得到加强，包括新设计的治疗成分，以解决在第一阶段确定的虐待的文化显著风险因素。第三阶段将包括对建议的干预措施进行有限的测试，以提供其有效性的初步估计。本研究的成果将是一个经验推导的、文化响应的亚裔美国家庭身体虐待干预措施，准备在未来的研究中实施和评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of the proposed mentored career award is to provide the applicant with the necessary skills to launch an independent research program focusing on the development of culturally and socially valid interventions for Asian American families affected by physical abuse. The applicant is well qualified for this award based on her strong training in two lines of research: mental health care for ethnic minorities and (2) mental health needs associated with child maltreatment. However, to meet her career objective she requires additional instruction and mentorship in: (1) intervention design, implementation, and evaluation; (2) translation of findings from the basic behavioral sciences to intervention development; (3) family, community and institutional engagement in intervention research and dissemination; (4) advanced data analysis appropriate for evaluation research; and (5) ethics in the conduct of mental health research with ethnic minority children. This training plan will enable the applicant to establish a methodology for producing, implementing, disseminating and evaluating culturally relevant interventions to target abusive parenting, thereby reducing child mental health problems in ethnic minority families. The research plan is divided into three phases. Phase 1 is an observational study that will identify culturally salient correlates of physical abuse in Asian-American families. In Phase 2, an existing evidence based parent training intervention for physical abuse will be augmented to include newly designed treatment components to address the culturally salient risk factors for abuse identified in Phase 1. Phase 3 will involve a limited test of the proposed intervention to provide an initial estimate of its efficacy. The product of this research will be an empirically derived, culturally responsive intervention for physical abuse in Asian American families ready for implementation and evaluation in a future study.