Training The Science of Child Mental Health Treatment

描述(由申请人提供)：本修订建议设立一个新的机构国家研究服务奖(T32)，旨在为儿童心理健康治疗研究的广泛领域的博士后和博士后水平的年轻研究人员提供跨学科研究培训。受训者将确定精神疾病的具体领域，并选择在不同层面推进此类研究的研究战略--治疗机制、疗效研究方法和应用。受训人员的总体目标将是掌握当前儿童心理健康治疗研究问题的广泛背景；了解相关的基础科学模型和方法；发展科学方法方面的专门知识，将其应用于儿童治疗研究；在指定的研究领域完成重要的独立研究；以及培养过渡到独立研究人员所需的技能。该方案将形成与该区域目前尚不存在的发展性精神病治疗问题有关的培训的纽带。研究培训将在特定障碍领域--儿童焦虑症、多动症和破坏性障碍、自闭症谱系障碍、情绪障碍和自杀、神经精神障碍--的翻译交叉点上进行，并检查治疗水平，如治疗机制或生物标志物、疗效研究方法或治疗研究的应用。核心培训经验将在受训者自己的研究中进行，并在他们与导师的密切互动中进行。此外，参与核心教学课程和补充课程作业和经验将提供研究方法方面的广泛而具体的知识。注重基础研究和应用研究的受训人员的结合将拓宽研究视角，并为受训人员在合作研究项目中工作做好准备。 拟议的计划包括培训5名拥有医学或博士学位的博士后和2名 博士后学生。博士后实习生将接受与儿童心理健康治疗相关学科的临床培训，或计划在研究培训期结束后完成此类培训。博士前学生将来自加州大学洛杉矶分校的心理学、教育学、神经科学或护理学系。该计划将受益于加州大学洛杉矶分校的积极治疗研究的广度，以及各种部门、计划、研究单位和其他培训活动提供的补充跨学科培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised proposal for a new Institutional National Research Service Award (T32) is designed to provide interdisciplinary research training to predoctoral and postdoctoral level young investigators in the broad area of child mental health treatment research. Trainees will identify specific areas of mental illness and chose research strategies that advance such research at a variety of levels-treatment mechanisms, efficacy study methodology, and applications. General goals for the trainees will be to obtain a broad background in current issues in child mental health treatment research; appreciate relevant basic science models and approaches; develop expertise in a scientific method for application to studies of child treatment; complete significant independent research in a designated area of research; and develop skills necessary for transitioning into an independent investigator. This program will form a nexus for training in issues pertaining to treatment of developmental psychopathologies which currently does not exist in the region. Research training will occur at the translational intersection of disorder-specific areas-child anxiety, ADHD and disruptive disorders, autism spectrum disorders, mood disorders and suicide, and neuropsychiatric disorders-with examination of levels of treatment, such as mechanisms or biomarkers of treatment, efficacy study methods, or application of treatment research. The core training experience will occur within the trainee's own research and in their close interaction with a preceptor. In addition, participation in core didactic coursework and supplementary coursework and experiences will provide broad and specific knowledge in research approaches. The combination of trainees focusing on basic and applied research will broaden research perspectives and prepare trainees for work in collaborative research projects. The proposed plan consists of training 5 postdoctoral students with medical or doctoral degrees and 2 predoctoral students. Postdoctoral trainees will possess clinical training in a discipline relevant to child mental health treatment, or plan to complete such training following the conclusion of the research training period. Predoctoral students will be drawn from Departments of Psychology, Education, Neuroscience, or Nursing at UCLA. The program will benefit from the breadth of active treatment research at UCLA and from the supplemental cross-disciplinary training available from a wide variety of departments, programs, research units, and other training activities.