Family Research Consortium V: Transdisciplinary Consortium on Mental Health Co-O

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案是一项资金申请，以支持非常成功的家庭研究联盟(FRC)在精神健康、共生障碍和家庭(FRC V)的跨学科联盟中的持续合作研究努力。作为20年前开始的合作倡议的第五代，FRC V将借鉴其前身--不同人群中的过渡、家庭和心理健康联盟(FRC IV)的成就。然而，拟议的新联盟有一个独特的功能，一个重建的教职人员，以及一系列新的活动，以继续推进精神健康和家庭方面的科学进步。FRC V的重点将放在共同发生的精神障碍(例如，情感/焦虑诊断或与药物/酒精滥用共同发生的人格障碍)的影响上，在跨学科框架内概念化，并强调翻译干预。该联盟将延续FRC刻意、认真关注种族、种族、文化和经济多样性的传统，在这一新的迭代中，将特别注意母亲的作用(她们通常是儿童和其他成年人的主要照顾者，其自身的调整可能会对其他人产生重大溢出效应)。家庭研究联盟最初是为了促进全国各地学者在与家庭和心理健康有关的问题上进行智力交流和合作而成立的。该联盟的活动将具体集中于五个广泛领域的共病的影响和后果：1)共病和人类生产力：社会成本；2)儿童和青少年的共病问题；3)共病的性别差异：途径和影响；4)种族、民族和其他少数群体的共病；5)精神健康和药物使用：预防、治疗和政策拟议的FRC-V联盟的具体目标是(1)促进不同家庭群体之间在研究共病精神障碍方面的智力交流和合作研究和培训，因为它们影响家庭成员的福祉和复原力；(2)促进关于育儿和家庭关系共病后果的创新、实质性、理论和方法方面的知识；(3)考虑涉及多个层面的影响的证据，使用翻译办法a)在多个背景和多个层面的调查中优先考虑不同家庭的突出风险和保护进程；b)设计适当的和具有文化相关性的干预措施；c)通过传播研究进展，为州和国家两级的政策提供信息。对公众健康来说，今天有相当多的人在滥用药物的同时患有严重的精神疾病(如抑郁症或焦虑症)。这些人往往会越过治疗系统之间的差距，往往会给社会带来高昂的代价。这项提议将汇集研究与共生疾病有关的风险和保护因素的顶尖科学家，目的是(A)综合尖端知识和(B)将这些知识转化为针对不同家庭群体的有效预防和治疗战略。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a request for funds to support continuing collaborative research efforts of the highly successful Family Research Consortium (FRC), in the Transdisciplinary Consortium on Mental Health, Co- occurring disorders, and Families (FRC V). As the fifth generation of a collaborative initiative that began 20 years ago, FRC V will draw upon the accomplishments of its predecessor, the Consortium on Transitions, Families, and Mental Health in Diverse Populations (FRC IV). However, the proposed new consortium has a distinctive function, a reconstructed faculty, and a new set of activities to continue the advancement of science on mental health and families. The focus of FRC V will be on the effects of co-occurring psychiatric disorders (e.g., affective/anxiety diagnoses or personality disorders co-occurring with drug/alcohol abuse), conceptualized within a transdisciplinary framework and with emphasis on translational interventions. This Consortium will continue the FRC tradition of deliberate, careful attention to ethnic, racial, cultural, and economic diversity and in this new iteration, will bring concerted attention, in particular, to the role of mothers (who are generally primary caregivers of children and other adults, and whose own adjustment can have major spillover effects on others). The Family Research Consortium was initially established in order to promote intellectual exchange and collaboration among scholars across the nation on issues related to families and mental health. The activities of this consortium will focus specifically on the implications and consequences of comorbidity in five broad areas: 1) Comorbidity and human productivity: Costs to society; 2) Comorbid problems in childhood and adolescence; 3) Gender differences in comorbidity: Pathways and Implications; 4) Comorbidity in racial, ethnic, and other minorities; 5) Mental health and substance use: Prevention, treatments, and policies The specific aims of the proposed FRC-V consortium are (1) to promote intellectual exchange and collaborative research and training in the study of comorbid psychiatric disorders among diverse groups of families, as they influence the well-being and resilience of family members; (2) to advance innovative, substantive, theoretical and methodological knowledge on the ramifications of comorbidity for parenting and family relations; and (3) to consider evidence across multiple levels of influence, using a translational approach a) to prioritize salient risk and protective processes for diverse families in multiple contexts and across multiple levels of inquiry; b) to design appropriate and culturally relevant interventions; and c) to inform policies at state and national levels through dissemination of research advancements. to public health A significant number of people today suffer from serious mental illnesses (such as depression or anxiety) simultaneously with substance abuse. These individuals tend to fall through the gaps between treatment systems, often at high costs to society. This proposal will bring together leading scientists who study risk and protective factors implicated in co-occurring disorders, with the aims of (a) synthesizing cutting-edge knowledge and (b) translating this knowledge into effective prevention and treatment strategies for diverse groups of families.