Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program

Stuart J. Goldman Child Psychiatry Resident Development Award

While all our residents may participate in research projects, the Stuart J. Goldman Child Psychiatry Resident Development Award provides financial support to one second-year resident to carry out a research project of his/her own. The goal of this award is to help the resident complete an independent project that leads to the preparation and presentation of an original poster at a national meeting.

The mission of our CBS research program is knowledge for children and families. What is knowledge for children and families? CBS is conceived as a research institute to strategically generate knowledge that will actively impact the emotional, behavioral, social and intellectual health of children and their families. As we pursue this knowledge, we hold the needs of children and families central.

Our success in pursuing this mission will have clear benefits for the public health of children and families because programs of knowledge:

1. create conditions for excellent clinical care through the relentless pursuit of scientific knowledge that directly addresses the needs of children and families

2. contribute to the quality of the knowledge-base of disciplines such as child development, developmental neuroscience, child psychiatry and psychology, and pediatrics, through the persistent and critical focus on the quality, value and utility of the knowledge generated in these disciplines

3. develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate interventions and services that are guided by the best principles of science, and a mission that requires this knowledge to be useful

4. yield a powerful vantage point to guide public policy, by integrating the highest quality of knowledge with a focus on using this knowledge to impact public policy

Grounded in the Department of Psychiatry's overarching vision, CBS's research priorities define critical gaps in the knowledge-base required to reduce the burdens of emotional, behavioral and physical illness on children and families and identify research that could fill these critical gaps.

These priorities include

1. research that is guided by well grounded appreciation of development, particularly the developing brain in its social context
2. research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries
3. research that goes from neurons to neighborhoods

• promoting mental health and well-being of children and families affected by pediatric illness
• promoting the mental health and well-being of children, families and professionals who serve those families, such as teachers and physicians, in the community.

Courses

In addition to our CBS, through its Clinical Research Program (CRP), Children's offers all its trainees the opportunity to enroll in courses in basic clinical research design, as well as in biostatistics and the use of popular statistical software packages.