Research Training in Child Mental Health/Primary Prevention

描述(申请人提供)：本申请旨在继续我们的预防科学培训计划，该计划自1987年最初资助以来，已为56名博士后和40名博士后学生提供了培训。我们培训研究人员预防处于压力下的高危儿童的负面心理健康后果。由于预防干预最好来自于对影响目标结果发展的风险和保护性因素的理论和经验支持的理解，我们使用压力和应对模型来考虑多个层面上的因素的复杂相互作用，包括个人、家庭、同伴、学校、邻居和文化影响。我们提供培训，将这一知识库转化为预防性干预措施，并提供必要的技能，以研究将预防性干预措施置于自然服务提供环境中的各种目标受众。因此，我们在以下方面提供培训：自然环境中干预措施的实施和实证评估；进行这些复杂研究所需的方法和数量技能；以及对不同族裔和文化群体进行这些研究所需的技能(特别侧重于墨西哥裔美国儿童和家庭)。培训通过亚利桑那州立大学预防研究中心(中国)及其合作的亚利桑那州立大学部门提供。中国包括多个由美国国立卫生研究院资助的项目，在这些项目中，合作研究团队进行设计。在自然服务提供环境中为离婚儿童、失去亲人的儿童和过渡到中学的墨西哥裔美国青少年实施和评估基于理论的预防干预措施。核心培训教师来自临床、社会、发展和数量心理学，以及家庭和人类发展。附属培训人员来自教育、市场营销、法律、工程、护理和社会工作。培训是通过研究学徒、持续的培训研讨会和正式课程相结合的方式进行的。这项申请要求支持每年培养4名博士后和4名高级博士后研究员。受训者来自临床心理学、社会心理学、量化心理学、发展心理学、家庭和人类发展。 公共卫生相关性：我们通过培训科学家在自然服务提供环境中实施和评估不同受众的预防干预措施，对NIMH战略计划的目标3和4以及2009年LOM预防报告的优先事项做出回应。正如LOM报告指出的那样，预防的最大机会是在儿童和青春期，自然环境中的干预措施加强了NIMH研究对公共卫生的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks to continue our training program in Prevention Science, which has provided training to 56 pre-doctoral and 40 post-doctoral students since its original funding in 1987. We train researchers in the prevention of negative mental health outcomes among high-risk children under stress. Because preventive interventions are best derived from a theory-based, empirically-supported, understanding of the risk and protective factors that influence the development of a targeted outcome, we use a stress and coping model to consider the complex interplay of factors at multiple levels including individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, and cultural influences. We provide training in the translation of this knowledge base into preventive interventions, and in the skills necessary to study the placement of preventive interventions into natural service delivery settings with diverse target audiences. Thus, we provide training in the implementation and empirical evaluation of interventions in natural settings; in the methodological and quantitative skills necessary to conduct these complex studies; and in the skills required to conduct these studies with different ethnic and cultural groups (with a particular focus on Mexican-American children and families). Training is delivered through the ASU Prevention Research Center (PRC) and its collaborating ASU departments. The PRC includes multiple NIH-funded projects in which collaborative research teams design. Implement, and evaluate theory-based preventive interventions In natural service delivery settings for children of divorce, bereaved children, and Mexican-American adolescents transitioning to middle school. Core training faculty are from clinical, social, developmental, and quantitative psychology, and family and human development. Affiliated training faculty are from education, marketing, law, engineering, nursing, and social work. Training is delivered through a combination of research apprenticeships, an ongoing training seminar, and formal coursework. This application requests support to train 4 post-doctoral and 4 advanced pre-doctoral fellows each year. Trainees are recruited from clinical, social, quantitative, and developmental psychology, and family and human development. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: We respond to Goals 3 and 4 of the NIMH Strategic plan and priorities of the 2009 lOM report on Prevention by training scientists to implement and evaluate preventive interventions in natural service delivery settings with diverse audiences. As the lOM report notes, the greatest opportunity for prevention is in childhood and adolescence, and Interventions in natural settings strengthen the public health impact of NIMH research.