This program trains research scientists studying the development, life course, and prevention of abnormal behavior. Its goals are to prepare trainees to become leading research scientists in the interdisciplinary fields of developmental psychopathology and prevention science; provide a national forum for the maturation and evolution of these fields; and enhance the quality of research being conducted in these fields.
During the15 years of funding to date, this program has been successful in achieving all three goals. Faculty and trainee research has focused on internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders; disorders of cognition and learning; basic emotional, cognitive, and biological processes; and prevention and treatment.
This program's funds support four advanced predoctoral trainee positions per year and three postdoctoral trainee positions per year.
The program emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field in that trainees come from diverse backgrounds and faculty are represented from clinical, developmental, social, and quantitative psychology; psychiatry; pediatrics; pharmacology, sociology; and education. The foundation of the program is apprenticeship-based research mentoring.
The program is designed to build the research skills needed for an academic research career.
This fellowship program is intended for predoctoral psychologists (entering year three or four of their doctoral programs) and postdoctoral psychologists (zero or one year since degree). U.S. citizenship is required. Fellows are selected on the basis of overall academic excellence and evidence of interest and facility in working with colleagues in other disciplines. Application is initiated by submitting the following information:
Judy Garber, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Dept. of Psychology & Human Development
Peabody Box 512
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37240
In the weekly proseminar, trainees learn the work of highly regarded scholars in-depth and receive consultation on their own research.
Peabody College has been consistently ranked among the top 10 schools of education in the nation by U. S. News and World Report for the past six years, and Special Education within the top 3 nationwide.
Judy Garber, Ph.D., Program Director, Developmental Psychopathology Research Training, (615) 343-8714