Training The Science of Child Mental Health Treatment

描述（由申请人提供）：这份竞争性的延续提案要求我们的机构国家研究服务奖（T-32）“研究培训：儿童心理健康治疗科学”的续期5年，该奖项位于加州大学洛杉矶分校塞梅尔研究所。该计划旨在为儿童心理健康治疗研究的广泛领域的博士后水平的年轻研究者提供跨学科的研究培训。受训者将确定儿童精神疾病的具体领域，并选择在不同层次上推进此类研究的研究策略——治疗机制、疗效研究方法和应用。受训者的总体目标是在儿童心理健康治疗研究的当前问题方面获得广泛的背景知识；培养成为独立调查员所需的技能。该方案将继续并扩大与该地区其他地方不存在的有关发展精神病理学治疗问题的培训联系。研究培训将在障碍特定领域（儿童焦虑、多动症和破坏性障碍、自闭症谱系障碍、情绪障碍和自杀以及神经精神障碍）的转化交叉点进行，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。核心培训经验将在学员自己的研究和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和经验将提供广泛而具体的研究方法知识。学员注重基础研究和应用研究的结合将拓宽研究视角，并为合作研究项目的工作做好准备。基于初步成功和众多合格申请者对职位的高需求，拟议计划包括每年培养7名具有医学或博士学位的博士后。博士后受训者将接受与儿童心理健康治疗相关学科的临床培训，或计划在为期两年的研究培训期结束后完成此类培训。该项目将受益于加州大学洛杉矶分校广泛的积极治疗研究，以及来自各种部门、项目、研究单位和其他培训活动的补充跨学科培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This competitive continuation proposal requests a 5-year renewal for our Institutional National Research Service Award (T-32) "Research Training: The Science of Child Mental Health Treatment", located at the UCLA Semel Institute. The program is designed to provide transdisciplinary research training to postdoctoral level young investigators in the broad area of child mental health treatment research. Trainees will identify specific areas of childhood 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; and develop skills necessary for transitioning into an independent investigator. This program will continue and expand a nexus for training in issues pertaining to treatment of developmental psychopathologies which does not exist elsewhere 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. Based on the initial success and high demand for positions from many qualified applicants, the proposed plan consists of training 7 postdoctoral students per year with medical or doctoral degrees. 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 two-year research training period. 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.