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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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Aftercare Program

Available for the 25-26 training year PROGRAM 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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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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UCLA Tarjan Center

Available for the 25-26 training year PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The UCLA Tarjan Center is a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). We are one of 67 federally designated UCEDDs across the country. These centers are authorized by the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act) and funded by the Administered on

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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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