Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Internship Clinical Rotation Sites
Our clinical child and adolescent psychology interns will receive their advanced training and provide direct psychological services alongside UC Davis clinical faculty, doctoral psychology fellows, as well as psychiatry residents and fellows, at the following locations.
Sacramento County Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (CAPS) Clinic
Setting and Population
- Interns typically spend 3 days at the CAPS Clinic (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday).
- The CAPS Clinic serves diverse Sacramento County Medi-Cal/EPSDT child and family recipients. Clients also have comorbid anxiety and mood disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, learning disorders, psychotic-spectrum disorders, emerging personality patterns. Depending on intern experience and interest, they may also receive supervised training working with infants and very young children (0-6).
- Clients at CAPS present with a wide range of complex diagnostic concerns. Many of our clients and their families struggle with multiple environmental stressors including low income, unemployment, poor social support, and/or family history of mental health or alcohol/substance abuse problems. Oftentimes, our clients and their family members have also experienced neglect or abuse and may be involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) and/or probation.
Supervised Clinical Opportunities
- Comprehensive psychological assessment
- Long-term therapy cases (individual, dyadic, and/or family)
- Consultation with a multidisciplinary, county mental health and child psychiatry team
Training Opportunities
Interns receive generalist child (0-21) and family training, with a particular emphasis on assessing and treating trauma/childhood adversity. Trainings are tailored to support interns in learning and adapting trauma-informed evidence-based practices to a community mental health setting. Seminar didactics include, but are not limited to:
- Trauma-Focused CBT (Brandi Liles, Ph.D., UC Davis CAARE Center): advanced clinical training and bi-monthly consultation calls
Pediatric Clinic
Setting and Population
Interns typically spend 2 days at the Citrus Heights Clinic (Monday and Tuesday). A range of specialized medical and mental health professionals staff UC Davis Health Clinics. Specialties at the Citrus Heights Clinic include family medicine, internal medicine, dietetics, physical therapy, psychotherapy and psychiatry. Medical students and psychiatry residents in psychiatry also complete rotations at the Citrus Heights Clinic.
Patients are screened by their pediatricians to have moderate symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. Following a population health model, clients seen at the Pediatric Clinic benefit from early intervention approaches to reduce the development of severe and persistent mental health symptoms. Clients come from diverse backgrounds and identities that are representative of the Sacramento community. Eligible clients are ages 8 to 17, although we can continue seeing patients who turn 18-years-old during treatment.
Supervised Clinical Opportunities
- Semi-structured intakes
- Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for anxiety and depression
- Brief behavioral health screening
Training Opportunities
Interns receive training to introduce them to the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) from the University of Washington. Trainings aim to support interns in learning the brief, manualized treatment for depression and anxiety. Seminar didactics include, but are not limited to:
- CBT Seminar and Case Conference (Elizabeth Solomon Loyola, Psy.D.)