About Us | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | UC Davis Health

Through our outpatient behavioral health clinics, we provide a comprehensive range of mental health services for adults, teens and children. These include adult and child psychiatry services, novel treatments for complex mood disorders, treatment of substance use disorders, a trauma recovery program and a nationally recognized early psychosis program.

We offer a number of residency, fellowship and specialized psychiatry training programs and are one of only two institutions in the country offering combined psychiatry residency training programs in internal medicine and family medicine. Through a cultural psychiatry component, we also help prepare future physicians in addressing mental health disparities and serving a diverse patient population.

Our faculty includes nationally recognized researchers and physician educators. The department ranks 17th in the nation for psychiatry research funding with major strengths in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), fragile X syndrome, neuroimaging, Alzheimer’s, dementia and early psychosis.

Our location in the capitol affords us the opportunity to be involved in providing mental health services for programs at the county and state levels as well as in the local Sacramento community. These programs serve an economically and ethnically diverse patient population, including homeless and incarcerated patient populations.