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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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Spanish Speaking Psychosocial Clinic (SSPC) Elective Rotation

Available for the 26-27 training year ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Spanish Speaking Psychosocial Clinic (SSPC) psychology trainees will spend their time dedicated to evaluation, treatment, and community outreach/engagement in a 6 month-long rotation within SSPC. It will provide training and supervision in the provision of culturally responsive and comprehensive mental health services to the rapidly growing and

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Insomnia Treatment Group: UCLA Student Mental Health Clinic – Adult Psychiatry (SHIP Clinic)

Available for the 26-27 training year ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The UCLA SHIP clinic is a multidisciplinary clinic in an outpatient hospital-based medical setting, serving UCLA graduate and undergraduate students with complex chronic psychiatric disorders. Patients are referred from the UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services Center (CAPS) after undergoing brief psychiatric treatment/assessment, for ongoing/consistent care at SHIP.

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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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Parent Training Program

Available for the 26-27 Training Year ELECTIVE 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 26-27 Training Year ELECTIVE 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 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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