Research Training in Child Mental Health/Primary Prevention

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求继续我们的预防科学培训计划，自1987年最初资助以来，已培养了56名博士预科生和40名博士后。我们对研究人员进行培训，以预防高风险儿童在压力下的负面心理健康结果。由于预防干预最好是基于理论的、经验支持的、对影响目标结果发展的风险和保护因素的理解，因此我们使用压力和应对模型来考虑多个层面因素的复杂相互作用，包括个人、家庭、同伴、学校、社区和文化影响。我们提供培训，将这一知识库转化为预防干预措施，并提供必要的技能，以研究将预防干预措施纳入具有不同目标受众的自然服务提供环境。因此，我们提供在自然环境中实施和经验评估干预措施的培训；在进行这些复杂研究所需的方法和定量技能方面；以及对不同种族和文化群体（尤其关注墨西哥裔美国儿童和家庭）进行这些研究所需的技能。培训通过亚利桑那州立大学预防研究中心（PRC）及其合作的亚利桑那州立大学部门提供。PRC包括多个nih资助的合作研究团队设计的项目。在离异儿童、丧亲儿童和墨西哥裔美国青少年向中学过渡的自然服务提供环境中实施并评估基于理论的预防干预措施。核心培训师资来自临床、社会、发展和定量心理学，以及家庭和人类发展。附属培训师资来自教育、市场营销、法律、工程、护理和社会工作。培训是通过研究实习、持续培训研讨会和正式课程相结合的方式进行的。本申请要求支持每年培养4名博士后和4名高级预科研究员。受训者来自临床、社会、定量和发展心理学以及家庭和人类发展。

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.