Family Research Consortion

Family Research Consortium V

Summer Institute 2011:

Mental Health and Substance Use:

Risks, Prevention, Treatment and Policies

Thursday July 21st - Saturday July 23rd

Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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The Family Research Consortium (FRC) is designed to promote intellectual exchange and collaboration among scholars across the nation and beyond on issues related to families and mental health, including the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders. The focus of FRC V is on the effects of co-occurring psychiatric disorders on families, conceptualized within a transdisciplinary framework and with emphasis on translational interventions and on deriving policy implications.

In the focus on comorbid disorders among adults and children, this consortium continues the past FRC tradition of deliberate, careful attention to ethnic, racial, cultural, socioeconomic, and structural diversity.

The FRC V aims:

1. To promote intellectual exchange and collaborative research, with a component of training, in the study of comorbid psychiatric disorders among diverse groups of families as they influence the well-being and resilience of family members;
2. To advance innovative, substantive, theoretical and methodological knowledge on the ramifications of comorbidity for parenting and family relations;
3. To consider evidence across multiple levels of influence, going beyond “listing” risk and protective factors and using a translational approach to:

 a. prioritize salient risk and protective processes for diverse  families in multiple contexts and across multiple levels of inquiry,  encompassing aspects of biology (genetics, physiology, and brain functioning) and behavior (social, psychological, and cultural  influences).

 b. conceptualize and design appropriate and culturally relevant interventions;

 c. inform policies at state and national levels through dissemination of research advancements on mental health and families