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PEERS ® Clinic: Caregiver Assisted Social Skills Training for Young Adults

Available for the 25-26 training year PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: PEERS® for Young Adults is appropriate for individuals 18-35 years of age with a variety of presenting problems, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, learning disabilities, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and adjustment disorders. This on-site evidence-based intervention instructs young adults about important elements of socialization (i.e., conversational […]

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Neuromodulation Clinic

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The UCLA Neuromodulation Clinic provides in-depth consultation and treatment for patients with Major Depressive Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, tinnitus, and chronic pain conditions, including neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia. The Neuromodulation Clinic strives to assist clinicians in providing compassionate, high quality, evidence-based treatment for these difficult-to-treat neuropsychiatric illnesses. Available treatment options include Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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thinkSMART Program

Available for the 25-26 training year PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: thinkSMART is a novel, 12-week behavioral intervention, designed to target executive functioning weaknesses in adolescents. The focus of the group is to teach compensatory strategies to teens and their parents (concurrently) to target weaknesses in areas of time awareness/management, planning, problem solving, task initiation/completion, and organization. Teens

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PEERS ® Clinic: Evidence-Based, Parent-Assessed Social Skills Training

Available for the 25-26 Training Year PROGRAM DESCRIPTON: This on-site intervention is one of the only evidence-based social skills interventions in the world. PEERS® is an international program, used in over 150 countries and has been translated into over a dozen languages. This program, developed at UCLA by Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson, instructs youth about important

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Child and Adolescent Mood Disorders Program (CHAMP)

Available for the 25-26 Training Year PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The CHAMP Clinic is a UCLA program that focuses on differential diagnosis and treatment of pediatric mood disorders, including bipolar disorder and major depression. The CHAMP Clinic involves three components: comprehensive diagnostic assessment of pediatric illness, pharmacological treatment, and psychological treatment. The Clinic sees many patients with

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4W Child/Adolescent Inpatient Group Elective

4W Child/Adolescent Inpatient Group Elective 25-26 Availability: 1-2 interns per trimester to complete 4-month elective July-Oct, Nov-Feb or March-June PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: For this elective, interns serve as co-leaders alongside social work to provide various psychoeducational and skills-based groups (1 group per week) on the child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit. The goal of the training

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