NIMH Careers Opportunities in Research (COR) Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：本次续签申请寻求国家精神卫生研究所为我们的COR计划提供从2007年到2012年的第六个周期的续签资金。与以前的周期一样，主要目标是为9名来自传统代表人数不足的背景的高年级本科生提供研究培训，以提高他们在与改善心理健康有关的心理学领域攻读博士学位的资格和动力。在我们的项目中，代表性不足的背景被定义为少数民族群体成员、社会经济地位低和/或第一代大学生。我们的COR项目是一个设在心理学系的单学科项目。我们专注于培养心理学学生，这是我们的COR计划的一个独特特点，在最初申请时得到了NIMH的许可，在过去的25年里，我们成功地保持了这一传统。这项续签申请的愿景是在CSULB一直在发展的势头的基础上，成为一家活跃的研究机构。更具体地说，心理学系为有关心理健康和健康差距问题的基础和应用研究创造了肥沃的环境。拟议的COR计划将确保目前的势头导致更全面和系统的努力，培训来自历史上代表性不足的群体的学生，为他们的心理健康研究生涯做好准备，从而最终使这些学生更有资格进入研究生培训计划，获得博士水平或医学博士研究职业学位。基于我们对CSULB过去的成功、可用的资源和卓越潜力的评估，我们为下一轮的COR计划制定了一个明确的目标，即在保持过去培训计划的成功要素的同时，加强对心理健康研究培训的关注。拟议的COR计划将以多管齐下的方式实现这一目标：(A)为学生提供基本和高级研究方法和统计方面的强化培训；(B)让学生接触当前心理健康问题和前沿心理健康研究课题；以及(C)让学生参与由心理学系教员开展的心理健康差异研究项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The present renewal application seeks renewed funding of our COR program from the National Institute of Mental Health for a sixth cycle from 2007 to 2012. As with prior cycles, the main goal is to provide research training for nine upper division undergraduate psychology students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to enhance their qualifications and motivation to pursue doctoral degrees in areas of psychology relevant to improving mental health. Underrepresented backgrounds are defined in our program as ethnic minority group membership, low socioeconomic status, and/or first generation college student. Our COR Program is a uni-disciplinary program housed in the Psychology Department. Our focus on training Psychology students is a unique characteristic of our COR Program that was permitted by NIMH at the time of the original application, and we have successfully maintained this tradition over the last 25 years. The vision for this renewal application is to build on a momentum that has been developing at CSULB to become an active research institution. More specifically, the Psychology Department has created a fertile environment for basic and applied research on issues related to mental health and health disparities. The proposed COR program will ensure that the current momentum leads to a more integrated and systematic efforts for training and preparing students from historically underrepresented groups for mental health research career so that ultimately these students are better qualified to enter graduate training programs that lead to doctoral-level or M.D. research career degrees. Based on our assessment of the past success, available resources, and potential for excellence at CSULB, we have developed a specific aim for the next cycle of the COR program, which is to strengthen its focus on mental health research training while maintaining the successful elements of the past training program. The proposed COR program will accomplish this aim using a multi-pronged approach: (a) offer students intensive training in basic and advanced research methods and statistics; (b) expose students to current issues in mental health and topics of cutting-edge mental health research; and (c) involve students in the mental health disparities research projects conducted by faculty in the Psychology Department.