New Mexico Mental Health Mentorship/Education Program

描述(由申请者提供)：新墨西哥州导师和教育计划(MEP)专注于初级保健环境中的少数族裔精神健康问题，特别是精神健康结果的差异。一个为期一周的强化年度培训机构向来自西南院校的少数民族初级教职员工和研究生介绍心理健康服务研究。MEP还加强了与杰出的精神卫生研究人员的持续指导关系。NIMH国家咨询精神健康委员会已将MEP指定为高度优先计划。通过这一竞争性延续申请，我们将通过两种重要方式扩大成功的计划，从而加强该计划：a)通过在社区卫生中心招聘少数族裔初级保健从业者(PCP)，MEP将解决“转化性”研究的重要性，以弥合国家公认的研究与现实实践环境之间的差距；b)新的组成部分将导致招募专注于少数族裔人口老年心理健康服务的少数族裔研究人员和导师。 MEP的具体目标如下：1)鉴于少数民族初级教员、研究生和从业者在获得适当的培训以帮助他们竞争研究支持方面遇到的困难，我们将向学员传授该领域的基本研究方法，重点是如何撰写提案和管理资助提案。2)为了更好地将研究转化为现实生活实践环境，我们将向大学和社区的受训人员介绍精神健康服务研究的重要最新发现，特别是关于影响西南少数民族人口的精神健康结果差异的研究。3)由于年轻的少数民族研究人员所经历的孤立和边缘化，我们将在这些受训者和全国知名的研究导师之间建立网络。4)认识到少数民族研究生、教职员工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多方面的“职业发展”。5)由于在许多少数民族青年研究人员生活和工作的地方组织培训项目存在困难，我们将制作面向少数族裔的心理健康服务研究课程，可输出到其他教育机构和初级保健实习地点。6)为促进初级调查人员在职业生涯中不断获得培训和指导，我们将每年举办一系列有关精神健康服务研究的培训课程。7)由于对少数民族老年人心理健康问题的研究较少，我们将启动以西南地区老年少数民族人口为重点的心理健康服务研究。

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.