Family Research Consortium IV

Postdoctoral Fellowships
 
As 2008 is the final year of FRC IV, no additional postdoctoral fellowship competitions will be held.

2006-2008 Family Research Consortium IV Postdoctoral Fellows

Karen Albright, Ph.D. Grace H. Chung, Ph.D. Allison De Marco, Ph.D. Joan P. Yoo, Ph.D.

The Family Research Consortium (FRC) IV, a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-sponsored program, provides research training in theoretical, methodological, and substantive issues concerning transitions, family processes and mental health, and the burden of mental illness and psychiatric disorders, in ethnic/racial and socio-economically diverse populations.

Four types of transitions are emphasized:

  • life course, which includes biologically-rooted and stage-related change
  • traumas, which include loss and unusually stressful events
  • geographical, including immigration and migration
  • economic, including poverty and job change or loss
The training is multi-disciplinary in content, involves mentoring from a diverse faculty across the United States, and emphasizes multiple levels of investigation from the biological correlates of individual adjustment, to the social context of family functioning. Each trainee has a primary appointment at one of eleven universities represented by FRC IV faculty. Trainees are involved in the Summer Institutes held annually by the FRC IV as well as research workshops, seminars, research initiatives and coursework consistent with their professional objectives.

2004-2006 Family Research Consortium IV Postdoctoral Fellows

Gregory Breeden, Ph.D. Lisa Kiang, Ph.D. Irene López, Ph.D. Antonio J. Polo, Ph.D.


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