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Fellowship Programs
Fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers an accredited two year fellowship program which residents can begin during their PG-IV or PG-V year of training.
The objective of the Harbor-UCLA program is to develop highly qualified specialists in child, adolescent, and family psychiatry. The program is designed to begin in the first year by imparting basic knowledge and skills, along with an intensive outpatient experience which includes crisis management, medical backup to non-physician therapists, and a rotation as a consultant to a community mental health clinic. The second year includes a neurology rotation, inpatient experiences at a well-known psychiatric hospital, consultative experiences to pediatrics and community schools, and opportunity for individual electives. During the course of their training, fellows also participate in both teaching and research activities.
The program employs a variety of teaching approaches including seminars (some of which are at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute in the first year), clinical conferences, and lectures. The course work includes fundamentals of child and adolescent psychopathology, pediatric psychopharmacology, child and adolescent development, family therapy, consultation-liaison psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, and substance abuse.
Most significant are the carefully selected faculty who provide individual clinical supervision. This includes observation and psychodynamic supervision of the resident’s treatment of young children in a playroom setting. Supervision is provided both by Harbor full-time faculty and volunteer faculty. The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is enriched also by serving as a training facility for general psychiatry residents, medical students, social work students, and both pre- and post-doctoral psychology students.
It may be possible, particularly in the second year of the fellowship, to tailor educational activities in the direction of individual interests and future goals.
For further information, please contact:
Kathleen McKenna, M.D., Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Education
Fellowship in Clinical Psychology
Please see Psychology Division site.