Development of a Mental Health Focused PhD Clinical Pscyhology Program in Vietnam

我们发展ICOHRTA的这一竞争性更新的最终目标是（D43-TW 05805）项目旨在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：针对越南儿童的精神健康问题，特别是抑郁症、自杀和焦虑症，制定文化上适当的、以研究为基础的预防和干预治疗方法，和行为问题，包括侵略和青年暴力，以及药物滥用;（B）规划、设计和进行临床试验，以经验地评估这些治疗，以及解决次要问题（例如，确定治疗效果的媒介物）;以及（c）传播这项研究的结果，以便对精神卫生服务的提供产生有利的影响。此外，预计在实现这些目标的成功将扩大我们的领域对人类行为的理解，通过项目教师和学员之间的文化观点的合作共享。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方案中为六名越南研究人员提供心理健康干预和预防研究方面的培训（其中两名为研究生博士）。学生，四名两年博士后学员）以及（B）通过在越南举办为期两周的暑期密集研讨会，为大约十名越南“项目研究员”提供培训（包括就他们的研究提供咨询）。为了确保提高研究能力是长期可持续的，我们的第二个具体目标是支持以儿童为中心，以研究为导向的博士学位的发展。临床心理学计划在越南国立大学在河内;在范德比尔特接受培训的个人将作为核心教师在这个新的计划。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，为心理学作为一个领域的扩大做出贡献。与越南研究人员的合作关系是该计划的核心要素，将为美国研究人员提供长期机会，分享和学习来自不同文化的研究人员对心理健康和人类行为的看法。这将增加我们对文化作为心理结构之间关系的调节剂的重要性的欣赏和理解，丰富我们自己的研究以及我们的越南同事。

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 prevention and intervention treatments for Vietnamese children's mental health problems, in particular in regards to depression, suicide, and anxiety disorders, and conduct problems including aggression and youth violence, and substance abuse; (b) planning, designing, and conducting clinical 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 mental health 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 mental health intervention and prevention research 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). 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 mental health and 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.