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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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Parent Training Program

Available for the 25-26 Training Year PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Behavioral Parent Training is specifically aimed at disruptive child behavior problems. It is highly structured and delivered to families in groups as a therapeutic intervention. Child/teen diagnoses include Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders (high functioning), DMDD and, less frequently, Conduct Disorder, Anxiety

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UCLA EMPWR Program for LGBTQ Mental Health

Available for the 25-26 Training Year PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The UCLA EMPWR (“empower”) Program provides specialized psychotherapeutic interventions to LGBTQ+ adults, youth, and their families dealing with stress and/or trauma in a safe and affirming treatment setting. Specialized individual, family, and group therapies build on personal strengths, foster healthy identity formation, and mitigate the consequences of

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Child and Adult Neurodevelopmental Clinic (CAN): Multidisciplinary and High Complexity Evaluations and Treatments

25-26 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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Child and Adolescent OCD Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

25-26 Availability: Fall, Winter Spring PROGRAM 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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