New Mexico Mental Health Mentorship/Education Program

新墨西哥州心理健康辅导/教育计划

• 批准号: 6823179
• 负责人: HOWARD WAITZKIN
• 金额: $ 24.88万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-08-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6823179
• 关键词: career; curriculum; education evaluation /planning; educational resource design /development; geriatrics; health care personnel education; health disparity; health science manpower; health science research potential; health science research support; health services research tag; medically underserved population; mental health services; mentoring /mentor; minority health professional; postgraduate education; primary care physician; training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The New Mexico Mentorship and Education Program (MEP) focuses on minority mental health issues in primary care settings, especially disparities in mental health outcomes. An intensive, one-week annual training institute introduces mental health services research to minority junior faculty members and graduate students from Southwest institutions. The MEP also enhances ongoing mentorship relationships with outstanding mental health researchers. The NIMH National Advisory Mental Health Council has designated the MEP as a high program priority. By this competitive continuation application, we will strengthen the successful program by expanding it in two important ways: a) By recruiting minority primary care practitioners (PCPs) based at community health centers, the MEP will address the importance of "translational" research to bridge the nationally recognized gap between research and real-life practice settings, b) A new component will lead to recruitment of minority researchers and mentors who focus on geriatric mental health services in minority populations. The MEP's specific aims are as follows: 1) Due to the difficulties that minority junior faculty members, graduate students, and practitioners have experienced in obtaining suitable training that helps them compete for research support, we will teach trainees basic research methods in this field, with an emphasis on how to write proposals and manage funded proposals. 2) To enhance the translation of research into real life practice settings, we will introduce university-based and community-based trainees to important recent findings of mental health services research, with special emphasis on research concerning the disparities in mental health outcomes that affect minority populations of the Southwest. 3) Because of the isolation and marginalization experienced by young minority researchers, we will establish networks among these trainees and nationally prominent research mentors. 4) Recognizing the challenges that minority graduate students, faculty members, and practitioners face in obtaining and retaining work positions that foster research activities, we will help trainees with various aspects of "career development." 5) Due to the difficulties of organizing training programs in the many locations where junior minority researchers live and work, we will produce a minority-oriented mental health services research curriculum that is exportable to other educational institutions and primary care practice sites. 6) To facilitate continuity of training and mentoring as junior investigators try to advance in their careers, we will initiate an ongoing sequence of training sessions in mental health services research on an annual basis. 7) Because of the sparse research conducted about the mental health problems of minority elders, we will initiate a new emphasis on mental health services research focusing on the older, minority populations of the Southwest.

描述（由申请人提供）：新墨西哥州的指导和教育计划（MEP）着重于初级保健环境中的少数族裔心理健康问题，尤其是心理健康成果的差异。一个密集的为期一周的年度培训学院向西南机构的少数少年教师和研究生介绍了心理健康服务研究。 MEP还加强了与出色的心理健康研究人员正在进行的指导关系。 NIMH国家咨询精神卫生委员会已将MEP指定为高计划的优先事项。通过这一竞争性延续应用，我们将通过以两种重要方式扩展成功计划来加强成功计划：a）通过招募基于社区卫生中心的少数族裔初级保健从业人员（PCP），MEP将解决“翻译”研究的重要性，以弥合全国认可的研究与研究和现实生活实践之间的差距，b）将成为少数群体企业的新组成部分，将重点培训型精神和培养精神培训。 MEP的具体目的如下：1）由于少数族裔初级教职员工，研究生和从业人员在获得合适的培训方面经历了帮助他们竞争研究支持的困难，我们将在该领域教学者基础研究方法，重点是如何撰写建议和资助的提案。 2）为了加强研究对现实生活实践环境的翻译，我们将介绍基于大学和社区的学员，以最新的心理健康服务研究结果，特别强调研究影响西南少数人群的心理健康成果差异。 3）由于年轻的少数族裔研究人员经历了孤立和边缘化，我们将在这些受训者和全国知名的研究导师中建立网络。 4）认识到少数研究生，教职员工和从业人员在获得和保留工作职位以促进研究活动的挑战，我们将帮助学员在“职业发展”的各个方面。 5）由于难以在少数少数族裔研究人员生活和工作的许多地方组织培训计划，我们将生产以少数群体为导向的心理健康服务研究课程，该课程可导出到其他教育机构和初级保健实践网站。 6）为了促进培训和指导的连续性，随着初级调查人员的职业发展，我们将每年启动一系列心理健康服务研究中的培训课程。 7）由于对少数族裔长者的心理健康问题进行了稀疏研究，我们将开始对精神卫生服务研究的新重视，重点是西南较老的少数群体。