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Child and Adult Neurodevelopmental Clinic (CAN) – Treatment

26-27 Availability DESCRIPTION This elective provides an opportunity to gain experience and familiarity with people with neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism spectrum disorder, and genetic conditions through a 4-month commitment for assessment training as part of our comprehensive assessment team (also involves presenting at our multidisciplinary case conference) or a 6-month commitment for treatment cases—group treatment […]

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thinkSMART Program

Available for the 26-27 training year ELECTIVE  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 26-27 Training Year ELECTIVE 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 OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program

Available for the 26-27 training year ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program specializes in the evaluation and evidence-based treatment of children and adolescents with OCD, anxiety, tic, and body-focused repetitive behavior (e.g., trichotillomania, skin picking) disorders. For more information and to sign up for this elective, contact Dr. John Piacentini, JPiacentini@mednet.ucla.edu

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Child and Adult Neurodevelopmental Clinic (CAN) – Assessment

26-27 Availability ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION This elective provides an opportunity to gain experience and familiarity with people with neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism spectrum disorder, and genetic conditions through a 4-month commitment for assessment training as part of our comprehensive assessment team (also involves presenting at our multidisciplinary case conference) or a 6-month commitment for treatment cases—group

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Child and Adolescent OCD Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

26-27 Availability: Fall, Winter Spring ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The UCLA Pediatric OCD IOP provides in depth evidence-based treatment for youth ages 5 to 17 with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. Our patient population primarily includes youths who either have failed outpatient care, need additional treatment following step-down from inpatient or residential treatment, or have traveled from an area

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Child and Adolescent Mood Disorders Program (CHAMP)

Available for the 26-27 Training Year ELECTIVE 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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Adolescent Serious Mental Illness Treatment Elective

26-27 Availability: Fall, Winter Spring Elective Description:  The Adolescent Serious Mental Illness (ASMI) treatment elective is housed within the UCLA Center for the Assessment and Prevention of Prodromal States (CAPPS), which provides flexible opportunities for comprehensive assessment and innovative treatments for adolescents and young adults who are at elevated risk for psychosis. There is increasing

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4W Child/Adolescent Inpatient Group Elective

26-27 Availability: 1-2 interns per trimester to complete 4-month elective July-Oct, Nov-Feb or March-June Elective 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 is to provide the psychologist

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