TY - JOUR
T1 - Capacity-building for African American mental health training and research
T2 - Lessons from the Howard-Dartmouth Collaborative Summer School
AU - Hipolito, Maria M.S.
AU - Malik, Mansoor
AU - Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth
AU - Whitley, Rob
N1 - Funding Information:
The Dartmouth–Howard Collaboration is a 5-year research and training center grant (PI: R. Whitley), awarded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). Research activities supported by the grant focus on the psychiatric rehabilitation of African Americans with severe mental illnesses (and, often, co-morbid substance use disorder). The collaboration brings together mental health researchers in psychiatry, anthropology, sociology, and social work from the Dartmouth PRC and Howard University. Details of the collaboration have been previously published (6). In addition to conducting research and generating new knowledge vis-à-vis African American mental health, a principal aim of the grant is to build research capacity in the African American scholarly community.
Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/1
Y1 - 2012/1
N2 - Background: Many psychiatric residents have traditionally received little-or-no training in cross cultural approaches to psychiatric training and research. Method The Dartmouth-Howard Collaboration summer school training program had a 5-year grant to explore approaches to enhancing understanding of cultural factors in mental health treatment and research. Results Participants' questionnaire rating responses indicated that their experience in the Summer School program enhanced their understanding and experience in dealing with minority, largely African American patients and the diverse factors that affect their treatment. Conclusion: The Dartmouth-Howard Collaboration provides a model for a feasible training program that imparts knowledge regarding culture and mental health, and the conduct of mental health research, with particular attention to African American mental health. The program is unique in that it offers an intense, 1-week course delivered to several types of mental health professionals and trainees in research and practice.
AB - Background: Many psychiatric residents have traditionally received little-or-no training in cross cultural approaches to psychiatric training and research. Method The Dartmouth-Howard Collaboration summer school training program had a 5-year grant to explore approaches to enhancing understanding of cultural factors in mental health treatment and research. Results Participants' questionnaire rating responses indicated that their experience in the Summer School program enhanced their understanding and experience in dealing with minority, largely African American patients and the diverse factors that affect their treatment. Conclusion: The Dartmouth-Howard Collaboration provides a model for a feasible training program that imparts knowledge regarding culture and mental health, and the conduct of mental health research, with particular attention to African American mental health. The program is unique in that it offers an intense, 1-week course delivered to several types of mental health professionals and trainees in research and practice.
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U2 - 10.1176/appi.ap.10100149
DO - 10.1176/appi.ap.10100149
M3 - Article
C2 - 22362437
AN - SCOPUS:84857543971
VL - 36
SP - 47
EP - 50
JO - Academic Psychiatry
JF - Academic Psychiatry
SN - 1042-9670
IS - 1
ER -