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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 Mood Disorders Program (CHAMP)

PROGRAM 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 complicated and highly comorbid clinical presentations

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Adolescent Serious Mental Illness Treatment Elective

DESCRIPTION & TRAINING PROVIDED: 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 evidence that earlier

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