Brown School Training Program in Mental Health Services Research

 描述：拟议的培训计划将扩大和重新定位我们在心理健康服务研究方面非常成功的博士前和博士后培训计划，重点是弱势群体，以及那些在心理健康和人类(社会)服务系统的交叉点接受服务的人。我们目前的培训计划是社会工作学院中唯一的此类培训计划，旨在满足社会工作专业对受过培训的学者的迫切需求，这些学者接受培训，调查社会工作者客户每天面临的心理健康挑战。在这次更新中，我们扩大了培训范围，包括实施研究，深化和加强了我们的方法培训，制定了新的项目管理结构，极大地扩大了核心和附属教员，加强了我们的博士后项目，并实施了新的评估战略。然而，我们保留了我们认为是我们项目的核心优势--识别有才华的学生、及早沉浸在教员主导的研究中、为助学金做好密集的准备、对知识个性化和构建走向独立的轨迹抱有强烈的期望，以及密切而密集的指导过程。这个项目受益于布朗学院和圣路易斯华盛顿大学在过去5年中取得的非凡增长。我们现在学院内有一个公共卫生项目，我们作为一所大学在全国的显赫地位导致了大学所有7所学院的教职员工更多地参与到我们的T32学者的培训中。我们的学生正受益于我们学院的这种参与、开花结果和奖学金。因此，在我们向T32计划提交的所有申请中，这份申请是最具跨学科的。我们寻求对2名博士后学生的支持(与前几年相同)，但我们要求增加一个博士后名额(每年总共2名博士后)，以利用拥有一批受训者所产生的额外效率，以及我们学校和大学现在表现出的更多培训机会。我们相信，这项建议反映了我们在管理T32项目20年中获得的经验，并反映了我们在未来几年为日益活跃和多样化的调查领域培养学生时所进行的持续学习和质量改进。

 DESCRIPTION: The proposed training program will expand and reposition our highly successful pre- and postdoctoral training program in mental health services research with an emphasis on vulnerable populations, and on those receiving services at the intersection between mental health and human (social) services systems. Our current training program, the only one of its kind in a school of social work, addresses the critical need within the social work profession for scholars trained to investigate mental health challenges confronted by clients of social workers on a daily basis. In this renewal, we have expanded the scope of training to include implementation research, have deepened and strengthened our methodological training, have developed a new program administrative structure, have greatly expanded core and affiliated faculty, have enhanced our postdoctoral program, and have implemented new evaluation strategies. Yet, we have retained what we believe are the core strengths of our program - identification of talented students, early immersion into faculty-led research, intensive preparation in grantsmanship, strong expectations of intellectual individuation and the construction of trajectories toward independence, and a close and intensive mentoring process. This program benefits from the extraordinary growth that has occurred at the Brown School in particular, and Washington University in St. Louis in general, over the past 5 years. We now have a public health program within the School, and our national prominence as a University has resulted in even greater engagement of faculty across all 7 of the University's Schools in the training of our T32 scholars. Our students are benefiting from this engagement in, efflorescence of, scholarship at our institution. Consequently, this application is the most transdisciplinary of all applications that we have submitted to the T32 program. We seek support for 2 pre-doctoral students (same as in prior years), but have requested one additional postdoctoral slot (to a total of 2 postdocs per year) in order to exploit added efficiencies that result from having a cohort of trainees, and greater training opportunities that are now manifest within our School and University. We believe that this proposal reflects the experience that we have gained in 20 years of running a T32 program, and reflects the continual learning and quality improvement that we have undertaken, as we train students for an increasingly dynamic and diverse field of inquiry in the years ahead.