Subject: RFA MH-9l-l4 4/l2/9l NIH Guide
From: Dot Baker <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 14:59 EST

Hi Paul,
   Please post this to the NIH Listserver as:
    RFAMH-91-14.910412
     This is the last for today.   Please let me know when all are
entered on the listserver.  Thanks for all your hard work.
 Have a good evening.   Dottie
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$$XID RFA MH9114 MH-91-14 P1O1 *****************************************
 
MENTAL HEALTH CLINICAL TRAINING GRANTS:
INDIVIDUAL FACULTY SCHOLAR AWARDS
 
National Institute of Mental Health
 
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
 
P.T. 44; K.W. 0720005, 0715129, 0414000, 0785185, 0730050
 
RFA:  MH-91-14
 
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 93.244
 
Under the authority of Section 303, Public Health Act,
U.S.C. 242a and regulations at 42 CFR Part 64, the
National Institute of Mental Health will accept
applications in response to this request under the single
receipt date of June 12, 1991.
 
Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H.
Director
Division of Clinical Research
 
Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D.
Acting Director
National Institute of Mental Health
 
PURPOSE
 
There is a marked disparity between the need for
treatment of persons with major mental disorders and the
availability of appropriately trained mental health
professionals to assess, provide, and supervise the
treatment.  For this reason, the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH) supports the Individual Faculty
Scholar Awards program to develop a cadre of academically
based faculty scholars who will guide the training of
professionals in the core mental health disciplines
(psychiatry, social work, psychology, psychiatric
nursing, and marriage and family therapy) and who will
play major leadership roles in the continued development
of their professions.
 
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
 
It is anticipated that these faculty scholar awards will
help ensure the successful preparation, development, and
advancement of the academic careers of the awardees of
this program.  By funding a new group of faculty
scholars, well-grounded and experienced in modern mental
health diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitation
techniques, research methodologies and findings, and the
delivery of care within community-based systems, the
program will serve to strengthen the scope and quality
of the preparation of future direct providers of mental
health services.  The training and experience of the
faculty scholars should be well integrated and include
clinical, academic, and research activities.
 
This program is designed for an individual faculty
nominee who holds, or has been assured of, a full-time,
non-tenured faculty position, at least at the assistant
professor level, that he or she will continue, or assume,
after the period of the award.  The training may take
place at the scholar's home institution and/or other
institutions that possess the necessary expertise in the
designated priority area.  Candidates whose home
institutions do not offer highly developed programs in
the designated priority areas should consider educational
plans that incorporate substantial periods of training
at other institutions where the required advanced
preparation can be obtained.  Each faculty scholar will
be expected to improve and participate in the appropriate
clinical training program of the institution with which
he or she is affiliated upon completion of the award and
to serve as an expert resource person in the priority
area at that institution and elsewhere.
 
The program prepared for the nominee must contain a mix
of clinical education, research training, and other
experiences appropriate to meet the career development
goals established for him or her.  Individual Faculty
Scholar Awards are intended to support the preparation
of those seeking careers combining research and clinical
practice exclusively.
 
Information regarding NIMH programs of support for
advanced training for careers exclusively in research or
clinical training may be obtained from other NIMH and
ADAMHA announcements and/or the NIMH staff listed below.
 
Concentration in one of the four specified priority areas
must be the predominant feature of a faculty scholar
nominee's development program.
 
PRIORITY AREAS
 
Schizophrenic Disorders
 
Schizophrenia is one of the most severe and disabling of
the chronic major mental disorders.  The clinical course
commonly includes repeated psychotic episodes with
chronic impairment of social and occupational
functioning.  Despite ongoing research efforts, the
etiology (or etiologies) of schizophrenia remains largely
unknown.  The treatments available for schizophrenia are
important in relieving some of the suffering for many of
the people affected.  Antipsychotic medications have
proven to be crucial in decreasing the severity of
positive symptoms of schizophrenia such as
hallucinations, delusions, and incoherent speech, but
they do not consistently relieve all the symptoms of the
disorder.  Many patients continue to suffer from the
deficit or negative symptoms of schizophrenia, e.g., lack
of goal-directed behavior, and verbal paucity; and from
disordered personal relationships, e.g., inability to
establish and maintain social relationships, social
isolation, and withdrawal.  However, aspects of
schizophrenic disorganization have been successfully
treated with integrated psychoeducation, behavioral, and
family approaches if combined with maintenance
medications.  Overall, it is estimated that up to 25
percent of those afflicted with schizophrenia will never
recover their ability to function independently.  An
additional 50 percent or more will experience some form
of disability in an intermittent course of the illness
throughout their lives.
 
NIMH has designated schizophrenia as one of its foremost
research priorities.  In so doing, NIMH recognized the
enormous public health challenge posed by schizophrenia,
acknowledged the immense and chronic burden borne by
people with this disorder and by their families, and made
a commitment to advance rapidly the state of knowledge
and clinical training relative to this major mental
illness.  Faculty who are expert clinicians and
researchers are needed to train additional mental health
professionals to provide services for those
affected by this illness.
 
Mood, Anxiety, and Personality Disorders
 
Mood, anxiety, and personality disorders rank among the
most serious and pervasive public health problems in the
United States.  Depressive disorders affect one in twenty
American adults in any one-month period, and the figures
for anxiety are even higher.  Most persons with
depression also have an anxiety disorder.  Depressive
disorders are the most frequent antecedent of suicide,
and the suicide rate increases among people with several
psychiatric disorders.  Personality disorders are thought
to be pervasive and debilitating, but less is known about
this class of mental illness.  The personal and economic
cost to the patients with these disorders, to their
families, and to the Nation is estimated to be greater
than such ailments as arthritis, ulcers, diabetes, and
hypertension.  Although effective psychotherapeutic and
pharmacological treatments exist, research shows that
most depressed and anxious persons are undiagnosed, often
untreated, and frequently treated inappropriately.
Improved service provider training is needed and
possible.  Faculty with clinical and research expertise
in these disorders are needed to train service providers
and researchers.
 
Severe Mental Disorders of Children and Adolescents
 
Because the mental disorders of childhood and adolescence
are among the most devastating and least understood
disorders of humankind, the NIMH has embarked on a
"National Plan for Research on Child and Adolescent
Mental Disorders," a major program designed to expand
greatly its research activities on child and adolescent
mental disorders.  At least 7.5 million children and
adolescents in the U.S. under 18 years old suffer some
sort of mental disorder or developmental impairment
(about 12 percent of our children).  Because of a combination
of factors, including a lack of awareness on the part of
some investigators of the critical needs and
opportunities in this area, as well as a relative lack
of qualified clinicians and investigators, the progress
in mental health research and treatment for child and
adolescent disorders has not kept pace with related
research in adults.
 
Major efforts are needed to increase understanding of the
causes and determinants of child and adolescent
psychopathology, determine the effectiveness of biologic,
psychotherapeutic, and social treatments, develop more
effective service delivery systems, and enlarge our cadre
of qualified, committed researchers and clinicians.
 
From a clinical perspective, the child and adolescent
disorders are often devastating in their compromising of
the child's personal, cognitive, and social development
as well as the impact on family and society.  The direct
costs to society are enormous because of the financial
outlays required to support the intensive care needed by
those children who suffer from the most devastating
illnesses such as pervasive developmental disorders,
autism, and childhood psychoses.  The disruptive behavior
disorders are a particular burden on society as they are
frequently associated with tragic consequences such as
delinquency, substance abuse, family disruptions, lack
of educational attainment, and the corresponding failure
to achieve the social and occupational accomplishments
that could otherwise be expected.  There is increasing
awareness of the morbidity associated with the mood
disorders/anxiety disorders and their protracted course,
co-morbidity, and resistance to therapeutic intervention.
Pediatric AIDS and homelessness of children and
adolescents are increasing mental health problems.  The
critical shortage of mental health professionals trained
to diagnose, treat, and rehabilitate children and
adolescents with severe mental disorders requires focused
clinical and research training programs.
 
Mental Disorders of the Aging
 
Risk factors for mental disorders multiply through old age
along such dimensions as physical limitation, social
disruption, and psychological loss.  Many surveys have
shown increases in the prevalence of symptoms of
depression, in Alzheimer's disease and other dementing
disorders, and in behavioral problems such as
sleeplessness, agitation, and confusion that are
disruptive to established patterns of family and
community life.  Furthermore, the duration of
schizophrenia and other chronic mental disorders of
adulthood can be lifelong; and except for the potential
risk of suicide, life expectancy is generally thought to
be unaffected by the presence of a mental disorder,
assuming there is adequate care of the mentally ill older
person.  The death rate for suicide, however, increases
by age, with those over age 55 accounting for 32 percent
of all completed suicides.  An estimated 80 percent of
those age 65 and older in nursing homes have some degree
of mental impairment, with Alzheimer's disease being the
most common condition.  Faculty leadership to establish
research and training programs in geriatric mental health
is extremely limited; growth in this area represents a
significant priority in NIMH.
 
In addition to these four priority areas, scholars are
encouraged to focus on specific subgroups that continue
to be underserved.  The problem of co-morbidity (i.e.,
the mentally disordered who are also substance abusers)
is recognized as a challenge since 32 percent of persons with
mood disorders and 47 percent of persons with schizophrenia also
have an addictive disorder.   Other subgroups include
minority and rural populations.
 
Another area of interest is the development of strong
ties between academic mental health training institutions
and public mental health facilities.  These systems offer
a rich opportunity for enhanced services in the public
sector.  Thus, NIMH strongly encourages faculty scholar
applications that demonstrate collaborative linkages between
academic centers and those public mental health service
settings where the seriously mentally ill receive
treatment.
 
ELIGIBILITY
 
On behalf of a qualified nominee, applications may be
submitted by an academic department or professional
school in a U.S. college, university, or nonprofit mental
health training institution.
 
Qualifications of the applicant department by discipline
are:
 
o    a department of psychiatry in a college or
university school of medicine, a division of child
psychiatry, or a free-standing mental health institution
with an approved university-affiliated psychiatric
residency or an approved university-affiliated child
psychiatry residency
 
o    a university-based department or school of
professional psychology or university-affiliated
internship program with appropriate accreditation for
training in clinical, counseling, or school psychology
 
o    an accredited college or university school of
nursing that offers training through a graduate program
in psychiatric nursing
 
o    an accredited school of social work offering
graduate education
 
o    a college or university-based accredited graduate
program in marriage and family therapy
 
Nominees must meet the following minimal qualifications:
 
o    psychiatry - completion of general psychiatry
residency training or, in child psychiatry, completion
of child and adolescent fellowship training, and the
appropriate Board certification or Board eligibility
 
o    psychology - completion of a Ph.D. or a Psy.D.
degree from an APA-accredited graduate psychology
program, and a year of clinical internship
 
o    nursing - completion of a doctoral degree, preceded
by a master's degree in psychiatric mental health
nursing, or a doctoral degree in psychiatric mental
health nursing
 
o    social work - completion of a doctoral degree in
social work or a doctoral degree in a related discipline
preceded by a master's degree in social work
 
o    marriage and family therapy - completion of a
doctoral degree in marriage and family therapy or a
related field
 
Nominees must be U.S. citizens or have been lawfully
admitted to the United States for permanent residence.
Nominees must have a full-time academic appointment or
be assured of such an appointment upon completion of this
award.  Women and minority candidates are particularly
encouraged to apply.
 
Faculty Scholar nominees are typically expected to be at
a point in their careers no more than five years after
completion of medical residency or doctoral education,
because the emphasis here is on new faculty scholars.
Under exceptional circumstances, more senior candidates
may apply, in which case the nominees and sponsoring
institutions must present a very strong rationale for
excepting nominees from the earlier stated requirement.
While other justifications are conceivable, a principal
one would be a nominee's intention, supported by firm
evidence, to make a major career change to focus on an
NIMH priority area.  Tenured associate and full professors
are not eligible to apply under this RFA.
 
SPECIAL APPLICATION CHARACTERISTICS
 
The following outline must be used to prepare a
description of the training program in the narrative
portion of the application:
 
Nominee
 
Instead of the Biographical Sketch, the nominee should
submit a comprehensive curriculum vitae to precede the
narrative proposal.  In addition, the nominee should
indicate his or her strengths and weaknesses in the
designated priority area and provide a statement of goals
for clinical and research training for the period of
award and nominee's subsequent career.  A clear, strong
commitment to a career in the identified priority area
should be demonstrated in the application.  A record of
research and other scholarly pursuits appropriate to the
nominee's professional level, especially in the priority
area, will greatly strengthen an application, as will
demonstrated potential for enhanced future scholarly
contributions and leadership in the profession.  The
nominee's background, beyond the foregoing, should also
show evidence of superior clinical and teaching
capabilities and research interests.
 
Program Plan
 
The nominee must submit a proposed program of
development, the goal of which will be a successful
career as clinician/teacher/researcher and faculty
scholar in an academic setting.  The nominee must
describe areas of additional experience that will be
required to meet the stated educational goals.  He or she
may include such activities as participation in formal
academic courses, consultation with experts in the
priority area, visits to other academic centers with
recognized educational and research expertise in the
priority area, and other training efforts appropriate to
the nominee's developmental goals.  A letter from
institutions other than the sponsoring institution
agreeing to participate in the program must be
included.  In addition, the nominee must outline as
precisely as possible the clinical, academic, and
research experiences that will comprise the training
program.  A research project is required of each nominee,
who must submit a research design in sufficient detail for a review
committee to judge its scientific merit.  Attention must
be given by nominees to considerations of inclusion of
women and minorities, informed consent, confidentiality,
subject rights and welfare, and subject risks.  (Grants
under this RFA are subject to the regulations of 45 CFR
46, Protection of Human Subjects.)  The nominee must
also outline an area of concentration within the priority
area, e.g., schizophrenia, that he or she proposes
to develop as a special area of expertise with regard to
clinical, academic, and research activities.  Such a
focus could be concentrated on a specific disorder (e.g.,
diagnosis and treatment of manic depressive disorders);
a modality focus (psychopharmacology, psychotherapy); a
conceptual focus (health and behavior, prevention); or
a community health care system focus (community-based
services, including psychosocial rehabilitation, mental
health administration, consultation-liaison, and crisis
care).  The nominee must furnish his or her perceptions
of how the benefits of the proposed training plan
will be expressed in the nominee's later career as a
faculty scholar.
 
The proposed training plan, to which a faculty scholar
is required to devote full-time, i.e., 40 hours per week,
must represent a clear departure from the nominee's usual
work activities at the home institution.
 
Supervision/Sponsorship
 
The overall supervision and sponsorship of the nominee
will be the responsibility (direct or delegated) of the
dean, department chairperson, or other qualified faculty
member of the sponsoring institution.  A description of
the role of the sponsor (supervisor) in relation to the
nominee's clinical, academic, and research activities and
goals during the period of the award must be included.
If supervision is to be delegated to someone other than
the sponsor, the relationship of the sponsor to the
supervisor must be described, including how the sponsor
proposes to oversee the faculty scholar's development.
Comments must also be supplied with regard to the
sponsor's perception of the future promise and current
strengths and weaknesses of the nominee relative to a
successful academic career, along with plans for
addressing the perceived areas of weakness.
 
Supervision provided by a sponsoring institution must
be contributed by the latter and not charged to the
grant.  Supervisory costs to be incurred by cooperating
institutions participating in the training plan may be
requested as part of the grant budget.
 
Applicant Institution
 
The application must provide general information about
the applicant institution, including its current
educational, clinical service, and research programs and
emphasizing those in the nominee's designated priority
area.  The availability of established faculty as
potential academic role models for the training program
at the applicant and other institutions must be
described.  Additional resources, such as established
clinical, academic, and/or research centers or unique
clinical service programs, directed to the priority areas
must be included.  Assurances must be provided that
ample time will be made available for the faculty
candidate to develop as an independent clinical educator
and scholar; the applicant institution must assure that
the nominee will be released from activities not directly
related to his or her development as a faculty scholar.
Documentation must be included regarding continuation
of the appointment of the nominee beyond the period of
the grant award, and it must be clear what professional
opportunities will be made available for the nominee to
fulfill his or her faculty scholar career objectives.
It must be shown that the nominee will not be performing
basic faculty tasks and roles and that his or her faculty
scholar training program does not repeat the
nominee's regular work assignment.
 
EVALUATION
 
Each application must include an evaluation component.
The evaluation component must include, at a minimum,
a statement regarding the process variables that will be
used to determine the progress of the faculty scholar
through a proposed program and the outcome variables to
assess the impact of the training program on the scholar
and the institution.  An evaluation plan of high quality
is an essential element of the faculty scholar proposals.
 
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPPORT
 
Grants will be awarded directly to academic institutions
on behalf of specific nominees and are not transferable
from one institution or individual to another.  The
applicant is the institution, although the nominee must
participate in preparing the application.
 
Grants must be administered in accordance with the PHS
Grants Policy Statement DHHS Publication No. (OASH) 90-
50,000 (Rev) October 1, 1990.
 
Period of Support
 
The period of support for an individual receiving the
NIMH Faculty Scholar Award is one to three years.  Plans for
each year of the award, including detailed budgets,
must be fully presented in this application.  However,
support for the second and third year of an award is
contingent upon the availability of funds and also upon
the receipt of an annual continuation application that
provides a summary of progress to date, plans for the
next year, and the sponsor's appraisal of the awardee's
progress.  Continuation applications are due four months
before the end of the current budget period; application
forms will be sent routinely to the individual awardee.
Individual Faculty Scholar Awards may not be renewed
beyond the initial one- to three-year period of an award.
 
Salary Support
 
Salary support is based on a full-time, 12-month
appointment, consistent with the established salary
structure at the institution.  The institution must
provide information specifying how the proposed salary
was derived.
 
Federal contribution to salary support is geared to the
institution's base as follows:
 
   Base Institute Salary           NIMH Contribution
 
     Up to $45,000                 100 percent of the
                                   Institutional Salary
 
     $45,001 - $60,000             $45,000
 
     $60,001 and above             75 percent of the Base
                                   Institutional Salary
                                   up to a Maximum of
                                   $75,000
 
Institutional supplementation of the Federal contribution
must be from non-Federal funds and may not require extra
duties or responsibilities that would interfere with the
purpose of the award, i.e., full-time commitment to
career development activities.
 
Fringe Benefits
 
Fringe benefits are paid out of grant funds in the same
proportion as the salary contribution.  In addition,
practices related to partial payments of fringe benefits
shall be consistent with institution policies and not be
altered for these awards.
 
Professional Development Support
 
Costs for professional development support may be
provided when fully justified as essential for career
enhancement.  Funds for this purpose, up to $25,000 per
year, will be provided.  These funds may be used to pay
for secretarial or technical support, tuition, fees,
travel, per diem, and supervision for study at centers
other than the grantee institution.  Relocation costs
from a place of residence to the applicant institution
are not allowable.
 
Indirect Costs
 
Indirect costs will be reimbursed at 8 percent of total
allowable direct costs or actual indirect costs,
whichever is less.
 
Payback
 
Any graduate or postgraduate trainee, including a Faculty
Scholar awardee, in psychology, psychiatry, nursing,
social work, or marriage and family therapy who receives
support in an established training program designed to
be for a period of 180 days or more under an NIMH
clinical training grant must pay back through a period
of obligated service equal to the length of support.
 
The period of support need not be continuous.  Any
support received for any period of time under previous
NIMH clinical training grants, if the stipend was awarded
on or after September 1, 1981, will count toward this
total.  The conditions of the obligated service
requirement are set forth in the 42 Code of Federal
Regulations Part 64a.
 
No trainee or Faculty Scholar awardee may receive a
stipend or other allowance from the grant until he or she
has signed and submitted both a payback agreement form
and a Statement of Appointment Form (PHS 2271), and a
certification of Non-delinquency on Federal Debt.
 
Further information on payback requirements and fiscal and
administrative matters is available
from:
 
Mr. Stephen Hudak
Chief, Grants Management Section
Grants Management Branch
National Institute of Mental Health
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 7C-26
Rockville, MD  20857
Telephone:  (301) 443-4456
 
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
 
Application kits (PHS 398, rev. 10/88) are available from
the Education and Training Branch, Division of Clinical
Research, NIMH (see the final section of this
announcement).
 
The name of the nominee should be placed in line 3a of
the first page of the application.  The type of grant,
e.g., Faculty Scholar (Psychiatry, Psychology, Nursing,
Social Work, or Marriage and Family Therapy) Award in
priority area (e.g., Schizophrenic Disorders) should be
identified on line 2 of the first page of the
application.
 
Prospective applicants are encouraged to consult NIMH
staff on eligibility and assistance in developing
applications.  The address and phone numbers for staff
consultation are listed in the final section of this
document.
 
Applications must be complete and contain all information
needed for initial and National Advisory Mental Health
Council review.  No addenda will be accepted later,
unless specifically requested by the Executive Secretary
of the review committee.  No site visits will be made.
 
The narrative section of the application may not exceed
20 single-spaced typewritten pages.  Applications
exceeding this limitation will be returned.  Appendices
containing such information as detailed resumes and
letters of support may be attached, but the appendices
may not be used to expand the narrative section;
extensive appendices are strongly discouraged.  The
applicant should include a project abstract that should
not exceed one-half of a single-spaced typewritten page.
 
The original and five (5) copies of the application must
be submitted to:
 
Division of Research Grants
National Institutes of Health
Westwood Building, Room 240
Bethesda, MD  20892**
 
Complete line 2 of the application by typing in the RFA number and
title.  The RFA label (found in the 10/88 revision of application form
PHS 398) must be affixed to the bottom of the face page of the original
copy of the application.  Failure to use this label could result in
delayed processing of your application such that it will not reach the
review committee in time for review.
 
Because of the very short time available for initial and
Council review, it is requested that an additional copy
of the application marked NIMH CLINICAL TRAINING should
 
be sent directly to:
NIMH Division of Extramural Activities
Parklawn Building, Room 9C-23
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD  20857
Attention:  Edna Hardy-Hill
 
REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS
 
A dual review system is used to ensure expert, objective
review of the quality of applications.  Initial peer
review for educational and technical merit is by Initial
Review Groups comprised of non-Federal mental
health authorities.  Final review is by the National
Advisory Mental Health Council whose review may be based
on policy as well as educational and technical merit.
 
Each grant application is evaluated on its own merits.
The following general review criteria are used:
 
o    background and potential of the nominee as a
clinical educator, researcher, and national leader in the
designated priority area
 
o    clarity, depth, and appropriateness of the goals of
the proposed training program relative to the purposes
of this announcement
 
o    appropriateness and feasibility of the content,
methods, and organization of the training plan
 
o    appropriate assurances that the nominee will have
the time available to ensure development as a clinical
educator, investigator, and emerging leader in the
priority area selected
 
o    appropriateness and strength of the evaluation plan
 
o    viability of the research design
 
o    commitment of the sponsor, supervisor, and
institution to the development of the nominee
 
 o   competence of the faculty sponsor, supervisors, and
consultants in the proposed areas of training
 
 o   one or more subgroups addressed within the priority
area
 
 o   commitment of the nominee, sponsor, supervisor, and
institution to public-academic linkages
 
o    suitability of the clinical, educational, and
research facilities and environments, including
community-based programs, for carrying out the proposed
activities
 
o    adequacy of the budget projections and other
resources for carrying out the project activities
 
o    if the faculty scholar is to receive training at
another institution, assurance of the cooperation of the
other institution and competence of the faculty in the
proposed area of training
 
o    potential of the nominee for a successful academic
career along with the capacity to provide faculty
leadership upon completion of award
 
RECEIPT AND REVIEW SCHEDULE
 
                          National Advisory
Receipt of     Initial    Mental Health      Earliest
Application    Review     Council Review    Start Date
 
June 12, 1991  July          September      September 1991

Applications received after the deadline specified above
will be returned to the applicant.
 
AWARD CRITERIA
 
It is anticipated that in fiscal year 1991 up to six new
Individual Faculty Scholar Awards (TO1) will be made.  The
maximum total cost per award is estimated to be $117,000
per year.  A disciplinary school or department in a
single institution may submit multiple faculty scholar
applications as long as each focuses on a different
priority area.  In considering multiple requests, however,
applicants should be aware that NIMH
funding decisions are based, at least in part, on
disciplinary and geographic distribution considerations.
Awards will be limited to one per professional school or
academic department for each priority area.
 
The responsibility for award decisions on applications
recommended for approval by the National Advisory Mental
Health Council lies solely with authorized
NIMH program staff.  The following basic criteria will
be used in making award decisions:
 
o    quality of the overall application as determined
during the review process
 
o    quality of public-academic linkages provision
 
o    where appropriate, balance among disciplines,
geographic locations, and priority areas
 
o    availability of funds
 
STAFF CONSULTATION
 
Application kits and staff consultation on all aspects
of clinical training in the core mental health
disciplines in relation to schizophrenic disorders, mood
disorders, and severe mental disorders of children and
adolescents, with the exception of specific research
issues bearing upon these populations, are
available from
 
General Information       Lemuel B. Clark, M.D., Chief
                          Education and Training Branch
                          (301) 443-5850
 
Social Work and Marriage  Neilson F. Smith, D.S.W., Chief
and Family Therapy        Social Work Education Program
                          (301) 443-5850
 
Psychiatry                Melvyn R. Haas, M.D., Chief
                          Psychiatry Education Program
                          (301) 443-2120
 
Psychology                Paul Wohlford, Ph.D., Chief
                          Psychology Education Program
                          (301) 443-5850
 
Psychiatry Nursing        Carol Bush, Ph.D., R.N., Chief
                          Psychiatric Nursing
                          Education Program
                          (301) 443-5850
 
The mailing address for all of the above is:
 
Education and Training Branch
Division of Clinical Research
National Institute of Mental Health
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 7C02
Rockville, MD  20857
 
For those wishing staff consultation on research issues,
such as NIMH-supported research grants in schizophrenic
disorders, mood disorders, and severe mental disorders
of children and adolescents, or information regarding
training support specifically for research careers in
these areas, the following may be contacted:
 
Schizophrenia          Alice Lowery
                       Schizophrenia Research Branch
                       Room 10C-06
                       (301) 443-3524
 
Mood, Anxiety, and     Barry Wolfe, Ph.D.
Personality Disorders  Mood, Anxiety, and Personality
                       Disorders Research Branch
                       Room 10C-24
                       (301) 443-3568
 
Children and Adolescents Eleanor Dibble, D.S.W.
                         Child and Adolescent Disorders
                         Research Branch
                         Room 10-104
                         (301) 443-5944
 
Staff consultation on both general clinical training
matters and specific research issues in relation to
mental disorders of the aging is available from:
 
                         Enid Light, Ph.D.
                         Mental Disorders of the Aging
                         Research Branch
                         Room 11C-03
                         (301) 443-1185
 
The mailing address for the above four staff is:
 
Division of Clinical Research, NIMH
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD  20857
 
This announcement is not subject to the intergovernmental
review requirements of Executive Order 12372 as
implemented through DHHS regulations at 45 CFR Part 100.