Clinical Child and Adolescent PsychologyFellowship Clinical Rotation Sites
Alongside UC Davis clinical faculty, doctoral psychology interns, as well as psychiatry residents and fellows, our clinical child and adolescent psychology fellows will receive their advanced training and provide direct psychological services at the following locations.
A Note About Secondary Rotations
Secondary Rotations are subject to change and scheduling is based on contract renewal and community need. Depending on recruitment outcomes, there may be flexibility in providing post-doctoral fellows with opportunities across these secondary rotation sites. In addition, there are potential possibilities to have future trainees rotate in the various UC Davis Outpatient Psychiatry services, as they are undergoing significant growth and expansion.
Please see the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry website for further detail.
Primary Rotation: Community Mental Health
Sacramento County Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (CAPS) Clinic
The CAPS Clinic serves diverse Sacramento County Medi-Cal/EPSDT child and family recipients. Fellows typically spend 3-4 days at the CAPS Clinic engaging in psychological testing, therapy (individual, dyadic, family, group), and consultation. Fellows receive generalist child (0-21) and family training, with a particular emphasis on trauma/childhood adversity, dyadic/parent management training, and comprehensive psychological testing. Trainings are tailored to support fellows in learning evidence-based practices with infants and very young children (0-6) and adolescents and transitional-aged youth (TAY, 18-21). 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.
Learn more about the Sacramento County Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (CAPS) Clinic
In addition, fellows who match with our program for the training year will get an opportunity to select an advanced rotation from the following:
- Neurodevelopmental/Group Therapy Management — Rotation site: MIND Institute
- Program Evaluation/Administration — Rotation site: Pediatric Clinic
- Program Development/Management — Rotation site: School-Based Mental Health (SBMH), Washington Unified School District
Advanced Rotation: Neurodevelopmental/Group Therapy Management
MIND Institute
The UC Davis MIND Institute is a collaborative international research center, committed to the awareness, understanding, prevention, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders, fragile X syndrome, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The MIND Institute employs a consortium of scientists, educators, physicians, psychologists, undergraduate and graduate level trainees, and parents.
As part of the Advanced Rotations, one fellow will have an opportunity to co-lead a social skills group for children with autism spectrum disorder at the MIND Institute. The group is an evidence-based, manualized treatment that typically runs for 25 sessions (November through June) for school-aged children (ages 8-17). It largely utilizes CBT principles with a focus on helping the children have positive and successful social interactions. This rotation also provides additional opportunities learning about group therapy development and management, as well as the supervision of other MIND trainees.
Responsibilities include: assisting with lesson planning, leading activities, providing supervision to volunteers who assist with the group, attending didactic seminars, and interfacing with parents.
Learn more about group therapy and the Social Skills Program at the MIND Institute
Advanced Rotation: Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health
Midtown Ambulatory Care Center - Pediatric Clinic
A range of specialized medical and mental health professionals staff the UC Davis Health Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatric Midtown Ambulatory Care Center Clinic. Specialties include family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, hepatology, neurological surgery, psychotherapy and psychiatry. It is one of two possible, advanced rotation training sites for our postdoctoral psychology fellows and the secondary training site for our doctoral interns. Medical students and psychiatry residents in psychiatry also complete rotations at the Midtown Pediatric Clinic.
The postdoctoral fellow selected for the Pediatric Clinic Advanced Rotation will be responsible for supporting programmatic administration by conducting intakes, determining eligibility, and making case assignments. The fellow will also provide brief, targeted evidence-based interventions, primarily utilizing Cognitive Behavior Therapy, to a child and adolescent population 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. While most clients have insurance, this clinic can also serve individuals with Medi-Cal/EPSDT.
Learn more about the Midtown Ambulatory Care Center
Advanced Rotation: SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH
Washington Unified School District
The UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child and Adolescent Division (Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Training Programs and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship) provide culturally responsive and trauma-informed, evidence-based behavioral health services at identified schools within the Washington Unified School District in West Sacramento. The UC Davis School-Based Mental Health (SBMH) team will be comprised of licensed psychologists, board certified child and adolescent psychiatrists, doctoral psychology interns, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows.
Students are identified by our Community Schools Site Coordinators. As a newer clinical rotation, the opportunities are still under development and are flexible to needs identified by the students, parents, and teachers. Services are provided across the school-aged (5-12) and adolescent student population (13-18). Clients come from diverse backgrounds and identities that are representative of the West Sacramento community, with a large immigrant and refugee population. Fellows can 1-2 days at the SBMH site.
The fellow will provide direct clinical services and lateral supervision to our interns at the SBMH rotation. Supervised clinical opportunities can include: Individual psychotherapy (Tier 2: Brief CBT; Tier 3: TF-CBT and DBT), Group psychotherapy (DBT-STEPS and various social skills groups), Behavioral health screening and assessment, Psychiatric consultation, Parent training and education, and School staff support and training services.
Fellows receive training to introduce them to the Community Schools model and best practices for integrating mental health services in public schools. Fellows participate in seminar didactics that will include, but are not limited to: DBT Seminar and Case Conference and School Psychology and School-Based Mental Health.
Learn more about Washington Unified School District Center