6 Months

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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Psychosis Clinic

26-27 Availability: Winter and Spring ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The UCLA Psychosis Clinic, directed by Stephen Marder, M.D., provides psychiatric evaluations, medication management and psychosocial interventions that aim to promote recovery and improve the quality of life for patients with psychotic disorders. Please contact the Psychology Services Director Dr. Luana Turner, PsyD luana@ucla.edu DAY, TIME, AND LOCATION:

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Insomnia Clinic Program

Available for the 26-27 training year ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION:  Insomnia Clinic will offer a 6-month elective of 4 hours/week or a 12-month elective of 4 hours/week, thus 100 or 200 hours in total.  Trainees will first have an afternoon of lectures and then shadow an attending delivering individual sessions of CBT-I over 2 weeks; after this

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BrainSPORT Program

Available for the 26-27 Training Year ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The UCLA BrainSPORT program is a multidisciplinary clinical, research, outreach, and educational program focusing on brain injuries, including concussions, in athletes, youth, and adults. The BrainSPORT rotation will be offering two tracks this year a brief assessment rotation and a brief CBT rotation. Rotating interns in the

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Aftercare Program

Available for the 26-27 training year ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The Aftercare Program is a specialty clinic for treatment and research with patients who have recently had a first episode of schizophrenia. Trainees can serve as co-therapists in five different types of groups, a psychoeducational group for new patients, cognitive remediation via computerized training, a Bridging Group

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Health Equity Elective

ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION: You may create an elective of up to 6 hours per week focused on Health Equity work (see https://uclahs.app.box.com/file/1237331805810 for more information on existing elective opportunities with Health Equity focus). Speak with your advisor or other faculty and staff to discuss your area of interest and find an activity that matches it or

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Youth Stress & Youth Mood (YSAM) Program: Research Rotation-Treatment and Prevention of Suicidal and Self-Harm Behavior

Available for the 25-26 training year PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: This program offers specialized research and dissemination experience on suicide and self-harm in youths, with an emphasis on treatment and suicide prevention services. The YSAM program includes our SAMHSA Center for Trauma-Informed Adolescent Suicide, Self-Harm & Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention (ASAP) which is part of the

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Youth Stress & Youth Mood Program (YSAM): Evaluation and Treatment of Suicidal & Self-Harm Behavior and Depression

Available for the 26-27 training year ELECTIVE DESCRIPTION: This program offers specialized training in the evaluation and treatment of child and adolescent suicide-risk, self-harm, and depression. Training emphasizes evidence-informed and evidence-based treatment strategies, with an emphasis on treatments developed and/or tested in YSAM programs, specifically: emergency evaluation and acute care strategies (Family Intervention for Suicide

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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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