Children of Depressed Mothers: Culture & Prevention

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个新的少数民族教师（K 01）NIMH科学家发展奖第二次重新提交。候选人建议使用5年的辅导支持期，以提高她的理论，方法和统计技能，以支持新的知识和专业知识的发展，在预防性干预研究的重点是儿童的风险，由于父母的精神疾病。该候选人是一名临床心理学家，在社区暴力暴露，预防心理健康问题，非裔美国青年焦虑症和孕产妇抑郁症方面具有博士后研究经验。本申请中概述的职业发展和研究计划将有助于她成为独立的心理健康预防研究人员的职业目标（即，制定、组织和实施经经验验证的预防性干预措施，针对种族多样性、高危青年和患有父母抑郁症的家庭）。本补助金申请将实现以下目标：1）通过研究文化背景下的风险和保护，提高对精神病理学传播的认识; 2）提高对儿童心理健康预防干预措施的理论和概念理解，以减少与父母精神病理学相关的风险; 3）学习进行干预试验所需的方法和统计技能; 4）设计和评估针对抑郁的非洲裔美国母亲的儿童的文化特定的预防计划。实现上述职业目标的主要工具是从事两项相关的研究。研究1是一个横断面的，描述性研究抑郁的非洲裔美国母亲和他们的目标儿童。研究1考察了文化和保护调节者（即，大家庭支持，社会技能），机制（即，消极的父母，消极的生活事件）和风险因素（即，暴露于社区暴力和种族主义），这可能会影响抑郁的非洲裔美国母亲的孩子的心理结果。在研究2中，研究1的重要发现将被用于对患有父母抑郁症的非裔美国人家庭进行文化适应性认知心理教育预防干预（Beardslee，1997 a，B）。研究2包括一项干预措施的调整、一项小型开放性试验和一项随机试点研究，以评估调整后的预防性干预措施（干预与治疗）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a second resubmission for a NIMH Scientist Development Award for New Minority Faculty (K01). The candidate proposes to use a mentored support period of 5 years to enhance her theoretical, methodological, and statistical skills to support the development of new knowledge and expertise in preventive intervention research focusing on children at risk due to parental mental illness. The candidate is a clinical psychologist with postdoctoral research experience in community violence exposure, prevention of mental health problems, anxiety disorders among African American youth, and maternal depression. The career development and research plan outlined in this application will facilitate her career goal of being an independent mental health prevention researcher (i.e., develop, organize, and implement empirically validated preventive interventions targeted at ethnically diverse, at risk youth and families suffering with parental depression). The following objectives will be achieved in this grant application: 1) enhance knowledge of transmission of psychopathology by studying risk and protective in the context of culture; 2) enhance theoretical and conceptual understanding of child mental health preventive interventions as related to reducing risk associated with parental psychopathology; 3) learn methodological and statistical skills needed to conduct an intervention trial and; 4) design and evaluate a culturally-specific preventive program for children of depressed African American mothers. The primary vehicle for achieving the above career objectives is engaging in two related studies. Study 1 is a cross-sectional, descriptive study of depressed African American mothers and their targeted child. Study 1 examines cultural and protective moderators (i.e., extended family support, social skills), mechanisms (i.e., negative parents, negative life events) and risks factors (i.e., exposure to community violence and racism) that may impact psychological outcomes in children of depressed African American mothers. Significant findings from Study 1 will be used to culturally adapt a cognitive psychoeducation preventive intervention for African American families with parental depression (Beardslee, 1997a,b) in Study 2. Study 2 consists of the adaptation of an intervention, a small open trial, and a randomized pilot study to evaluate the adapted preventive intervention (Intervention vs. Treatment-As-Usual).