The UCLA Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program promotes clinical excellence, curiosity, and compassion as we prepare the next generation of child psychiatry leaders to advance the knowledge and treatment of mental illness one child, family, system, and community at a time. We seek to ensure clinical competency while providing unique opportunities to learn about pioneering neuroscience, ground-breaking somatic and psychotherapeutic treatments, and population health from world-renowned faculty members. Our training program strives to address mental health disparities and serves a diverse patient population that draws from the local Los Angeles and Southern California region while also serving as a referral center for patients and families worldwide.

Chiefships: 

• Program Chief: administrative, lead fellowship activities, liaison with division and departmental leadership
• Psychotherapy Chief: administrative, recruit and choose appropriate long-term  psychotherapy patients for fellows, coordinate referrals 
• Wellbeing Chief: administrative, lead Child Division Fellowship wellness activities and wellness efforts 
• Emergency Medicine Chief: administrative, coordinate with multidisciplinary Emergency Department teams, participate in Emergency Department Throughput Committee
• Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Chief: helps integrate JEDI principles into all training activities to reinforce the vision and values of our program
• Inpatient Chief: administrative, educational role, medical student, resident, fellow teaching, work closely with inpatient medical director

Regular Opportunities for Electives: 

• Adolescent Medicine Clinic (B. Bursch) 
• Infant-Preschool Clinic (K. Best) 
• Anxiety and OCD outpatient or intensive outpatient (IOP), research (J. Piacentini, S. Chang)* 
• CHAMP (Child and Adolescent Mood Disorder Program), bipolar disorder, Family Focused Treatment, clinical or research (D. Miklowitz, R. Suddath)*
• Child and Adult Neurodevelopmental Clinic, clinical or research (J. McCracken)*
• Child OCD Intensive Treatment Program
• Eating Disorders, inpatient/partial (M. Strober)* 
• Kids Connect (T. Paparella; S. Freeman, R. Suddath)* 
• EMPWR Program for LGBTQ Youth & Young Adults (N. Ramos) 
• Family Development Project, maternal mental health, parent-child relationship (C. Mogil)
• Family Therapy (V. Barenstein) 
• Juvenile Mental Health Court/ Forensic Psychiatry (B. Bursch; E. Bath) 
• Pediatric Psychology CL (N. Emerson) 
• Pediatric Trauma, FOCUS (P. Lester)*
• Family Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR), Early Childhood, PCIT (C. Mogil)
• FOCUS Military/Veteran Family Resilience (P. Lester and C. Mogil)
• PEERS, Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills, for adolescent/TAY with Autism (L. Laugeson) 
• Maternal Mental Health Partial Hospitalization Program (M. Richards) 
• Primary Care Consultation (J. Jeffrey) 
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy case conference/reading seminar, at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (S. Leiken, V. DeGolia)
• STRIVE, Adolescent and Family Prevention/Intervention for runaway youth (N. Milburn) 
• Teaching of Medical Students (M. Richards) 
• TIES for Families, working with children in foster care, adoption (M. Daley, A. Langley) 
• UCLA Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS): College mental health (H. Levin, Psychiatry Director). 
• Youth Stress & Mood Clinic: Depression & Suicide Prevention (CBT, DBT, clinical and/or research) (J. Asarnow)
• Rape Treatment Center/Stuart House  (A. Gillis)

Examples of “Create Your Own” Electives: 

• Educational/Psychological Assessments (I. Blum) 
• Research Project (various) 
• Psychotherapy, individual or group therapy (additional psychotherapy supervisor)
• International/Away Elective (given COVID-19, this elective is on-hold for the 2020-21 academic year) 
• Other (design your own, start planning early)
  

*Electives that can be expanded experiences of required rotations.