TY - JOUR
T1 - Community-engaged research
T2 - Bringing the science of developmental psychopathology into the real world
AU - Parade, Stephanie H.
AU - Jennings, Ernestine
AU - Huffhines, Lindsay
AU - Rojo-Wissar, Darlynn M.
AU - Caron, Colleen
AU - Berger, Blythe
AU - Stroud, Laura R.
AU - Tyrka, Audrey R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The science of developmental psychopathology has made outstanding progress over the past 40 years in understanding adaptive and maladaptive developmental processes across the life span. Yet most of this work has been researcher driven with little involvement of community partners in the research process, limiting the potential public health significance of our work. To continue to advance the field we must move beyond the physical and conceptual walls of our research laboratories and into the real world. In this article, we define and describe the importance of community-engaged research, and present our overarching principles for engaging the community including practicing respect, shared power and decision-making, prioritizing the needs of the community, and engaging in consistent and transparent communication. We present several associated recommendations for best practice and highlight examples from our own research that is grounded in a developmental psychopathology perspective to illustrate these practices. Recommendations for the future of the discipline of development and psychopathology, with emphasis on training and continuing education, are described.
AB - The science of developmental psychopathology has made outstanding progress over the past 40 years in understanding adaptive and maladaptive developmental processes across the life span. Yet most of this work has been researcher driven with little involvement of community partners in the research process, limiting the potential public health significance of our work. To continue to advance the field we must move beyond the physical and conceptual walls of our research laboratories and into the real world. In this article, we define and describe the importance of community-engaged research, and present our overarching principles for engaging the community including practicing respect, shared power and decision-making, prioritizing the needs of the community, and engaging in consistent and transparent communication. We present several associated recommendations for best practice and highlight examples from our own research that is grounded in a developmental psychopathology perspective to illustrate these practices. Recommendations for the future of the discipline of development and psychopathology, with emphasis on training and continuing education, are described.
KW - Academic-community partnerships
KW - community collaboration
KW - community engagement
KW - community-engaged research
KW - research-community partnerships
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U2 - 10.1017/S0954579424001020
DO - 10.1017/S0954579424001020
M3 - Article
C2 - 39363709
AN - SCOPUS:85207131929
SN - 0954-5794
JO - Development and psychopathology
JF - Development and psychopathology
ER -