Training

Funded by a Training Grant from NIMH, the ASU Prevention Research Center provides training in child mental health/primary prevention to post-doctoral and pre-doctoral fellows. Training is provided in research on risk and resilience (particularly longitudinal studies), the design, implementation, empirical evaluation, and dissemination to natural settings of preventive interventions, and the quantitative methodologies required to accomplish these goals. All trainees attend a weekly seminar meeting in which we share our work, host visits from prevention scientists, and give presentations on professional socialization issues including grant writing and ethical issues. Programs of training are tailored to the individual needs and interests of fellows. Post-doctoral trainees choose two research teams/mentors to work with, and select one class per semester to audit. Training is for a two year period. Pre-doctoral trainees pursue graduate coursework and mentored prevention research for a one year period.

Interested applicants should contact Laurie Chassin (laurie.chassin@asu.edu), and available training positions are regularly updated on the Employment Page.

For a complete list of ASU faculty mentors for the Training program, please refer to: List of Training Faculty. (Requires Adobe Reader)

The program has been described in two publications, and interested applicants should consult these for more details.

Sandler, I., & Chassin, L. (1993). From research to implementation in the teaching of prevention: A post-doctoral training program. Teaching of Psychology.

Sandler, I., & Chassin, L., (2002). Training of prevention researchers: Perspectives from the Arizona State University Prevention Research Training Program. Prevention and Treatment. Vol. 5. (Electronic Journal of the American Psychological Association). http://journals.apa.org/prevention.